Christine Angot won the Medici Prize on Tuesday for her novel The Journey to the East published by Flammarion, announced the
publishing house in a tweet. The novelist looks back on the incest of which she was the victim by her father, a subject that she has addressed several times in particular in her famous novel Incest.
Meeting in a restaurant in the Odéon district in Paris, the jury crowned the 62-year-old novelist for one of the most noticed books of the literary re-entry 2021. Very moved in front of the jury, she thanked him by saying : ” Its very important “.
In the running for the Goncourt prize
The Medici Prize for Foreign Novels was awarded to Swedish-Tunisian Jonas Hassen Khemiri for The paternal clause (Actes Sud). The prize for the essay was awarded to Jakuta Alikavazovic for Like a sky in us (Stock).
Christine Angot is one of the four finalistsOf the Prix Goncourt alongside Sorj Chalandon for Bastard child (Grasset), Louis-Philippe Dalembert for Milwaukee Blues (Sabine Wespieser), and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr for The most secret memory of men (Philippe Rey / Jimsaan).