“Hell” with Marin Ledun

This year, and for the 37th time, the Salon du Livre et de la Presse jeunesse in Seine-Saint-Denis will indeed take place. It will be in Montreuil, from December 1 to 6, and we are looking forward to it!

One of the novels selected for the famous Prix des Pépites, in the Teen Fiction category, is called Hell. Published by In8 editions, in the Faction collection, it should be read from 12 years old.

1838. Young Ahmed Naili, just 19 years old, was born near Oran. He dared to brave the curfew to see his beautiful Maryam. Her stolen kiss is going to cost her dearly, and maybe even her life. Ahmed was sent to prison in Guyana, on the Salvation Islands, off Kourou, where France sent its detainees. Life, without hope, is hell. One day, Ahmed crosses paths with a little girl. This meeting, or rather this apparition, will turn his life as a prisoner upside down, and give him hope.

“That’s when he sees her. An angel with long brown curls and diaphanous skin.”

Marin Ledun

to franceinfo

Even where hell is there, beauty, poetry and hope can also creep in.
Hell is a short, incisive, sensitive and brilliant story, in a way already really a nugget. Good luck to Marin Ledun to make this happen next Wednesday, December 1st, the day of the award ceremony for the famous Pépites at the Salon du Livre et de la Presse jeunesse in Montreuil!

Full Gray of Marion Brunet, PKJ editions, to be read from 13 years old (January 2021). Chronicle of franceinfo junior Books with the author to listen to here.