(Paris) Novelist Joyce Maynard won the Grand Prix for American Literature on Tuesday for Where happy people lived, fiction of autobiographical inspiration.
The novel was published by Éditions Philippe Rey, publisher of the 2021 Goncourt Prize, The most secret memory of men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr.
It tells how a successful artist, marked by a difficult youth, tries to rebuild the life she wants perfect by buying a house in the New Hampshire countryside.
Joyce Maynard, 68, also a journalist, published her tenth novel there. All have been translated into French, most of them by Philippe Rey.
Created in 2015, this prize, awarded by a jury of three literary critics, three publishers and four booksellers, rewards an American novel “distinguished by its leading literary qualities”.
The author must come to Paris to receive him in November or December.