Simon Liberati, a Renaudot prize under the sign of the Rolling Stones

A year after Amélie Nothomb, another colorful character from the literary world is crowned with the Renaudot prize. Simon Liberati62, arrived at Drouant, loose black leather jacket over a khaki shirt, gray curly hair cascading over the shoulders, white and gray beard.

The writer seemed a bit lost. This victory at Renaudot, eleven years after that of Femina (for Jayne Mansfield 1967) was all of a surprise: he therefore tooka little Xanaxto bear the shock. His companion Clara Benador, 24, whose first novel, The Little Loverscame out at the start of the school year at Gallimard, seemed more moved than him.

Prix ​​Goncourt and Renaudot: behind the scenes of a vote

Frédéric Beigbeder, influential juror of Renaudot, was on a little cloud. The two men have been friends for almost twenty years. At the time, Beigbederpublisher at Flammarion, published Liberati’s first novel, Anthology of apparitions. The book was a resounding success, both critically (Éric Neuhoff…