The French literary prize of Flore awarded to Benjamin Stock

(Paris) The Flore literary prize was awarded Thursday in Paris to Benjamin Stock for his first novel, Marca wacky critique of conspiracy theory based on the novels of bestselling French author Marc Levy, announced the jury.

The winner won with 11 votes to one for Joy Majdalani, during the deliberations at the Café de Flore, a brasserie in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district.

The Flore Prize was created in 1994 by the writer Frédéric Beigbeder and a café manager, Carole Chrétiennot, who have both remained members of the jury since. It distinguishes “promising young authors, with insolent and original talent”.

Endowed with 6,150 euros (9,213 Canadian dollars), it has the originality of offering its winner a glass of Pouilly-fumé – white wine – every day for a year at the famous Parisian café-restaurant, on a glass engraved with his name .

Marcpublished by Rue Fromentin, is the work of a 36-year-old author who “worked in communication for companies in the ecological transition sector”, according to the presentation of his publisher.

The hero is a start-up manager, David, who thanks to a colleague will discover the existence of a clandestine community of Marc Levy readers. Little by little, David will become convinced that this popular novelist hides communist messages in his plots and the names of his characters.