(Paris) The playwright Pauline Peyrade won the Goncourt prize for the first novel on Thursday, for The age of destroyinga camera between a mother and a daughter, announced the jury.
This novel published in January by Editions de Minuit recounts two moments of this relationship in the same apartment, in the 1990s when the girl was seven years old, and in the 2010s when the latter left nearby and the apartment was on sale. .
Critics hailed the success of this brief domestic tragedy, by a thirty-year-old author who is also a director.
The Goncourt de la Nouvelle was awarded to David Thomas for the collection Everywhere the others (Editions de L’Olivier), series of poetic snapshots.
The Goncourt for Robert-Sabatier poetry went to Laura Vazquez, also an author of novels. His poetic work was collected in 2022 in paperback in You are less and less real (Points editions).
The Goncourt of the biography Edmonde Charles-Roux dedicated the George Perec (Gallimard editions) of the academic Claude Burgelin.
Finally, the Académie Goncourt awarded a special poetry prize “posthumously to Christian Bobin for all of his work”.
This unclassifiable writer, follower of the short form and ephemeral notations, died at the age of 71 in November, a month after the publication of an anthology, The different regions of the sky (Quarto).
The so-called “spring” Goncourt prizes are awarded by the same jury as the famous Goncourt prize, the most prestigious of French literary awards, at the end of October or the beginning of November. Christine Angot joined this Academy in February, chaired since 2020 by Didier Decoin.