(Paris) Clara Dupont-Monod won the Landerneau readers’ prize on Tuesday, awarded by a jury of 230 readers, for her book Adapt.
In this novel published by Éditions Stock, and still in the running for several autumn prizes including Le Goncourt, the editor and journalist imagines a family upset by the arrival of a disabled child.
The jury, overwhelmingly female, is chaired by Michel-Édouard Leclerc and a writer, in this case Serge Joncour for this sixth edition.
“This dreamlike novel, at the edge of the tale, plunges the reader as close as possible to his feelings and can only resonate in each of us”, commented Serge Joncour in a press release.
Adapt begins as follows: “One day, in a family, an unsuitable child was born. Despite its somewhat degrading ugliness, this word would nevertheless convey the reality of a soft body, of a mobile and empty gaze ”.
The Landerneau Prize for readers of the E. Leclerc Cultural Spaces is endowed with 10,000 euros ($ 14,400), and offers an advertising campaign in the press and in the brand’s stores.
On Monday evening, another autumn prize, the First novel prize, was awarded to Maud Ventura for My husband (Éditions de l’Iconoclaste) for his “funny and fierce look at married life”.
The prize for the First Foreign Novel went to the American Daniel Loedel for Hades, Argentina (Editions of La Croisée).