Alain Farah will definitely have attracted the attention of several juries in the past year with his success A thousand secrets, a thousand dangers, an autobiographical novel that deals, among other things, with life and death, immigration and the quest for identity. Thursday evening, the Montreal writer received the Ringuet prize from the Académie des lettres du Québec.
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In recent months, Alain Farah has also been nominated for the 2022 Quebec Booksellers’ Prize and the 2022 College Literary Prize. He is also still in the running for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal and the Governor General’s Literary Prizes. whose winners will be known respectively on November 3 and 16.
The other finalist novels for the Ringuet Prize were The dancer of La Macaza by Anne Elaine Cliche and Letter to Benjamin by Laurence Leduc-Primeau.