Here’s the first pick for our Heroine Grand Prize, which will be awarded in May at the Hotel Raphael in Paris.
French novel. alchemies, By Sarah Chiche
The author: Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Sarah Chiche, a psychologist and screenwriter, has published her first novel. The unfinishedin 2008 An erotic history of psychoanalysis, In 2018, and novels such as The dark ones And Saturnwith an autobiographical tone.
We love. This fiction follows the search of a coroner, Camille, who travels to Bordeaux after receiving an e-mail that mentions the disappearance of a Goya skull, which was adored by her painting-loving parents. A journey that sheds light on his family’s troubled past and becomes a fascinating investigation into the origins of genius and the powers of art.
Bernard Babkin
Story/Essay Proust, Family Novel, By Lor Murat
The author: Historian and UCLA professor Lor Murat received the 2011 Femina Essay Prize. The man who thought he was Napoleon.
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We love. With genius, Lor Murat makes it available Searching for lost time. Because, telling us about herself, the heiress of some world, she gives us the gifts that Proust gave her. The first is to allow, “because it refuses all sloppy or ready-made explanations”, to look at the world with new eyes. Another is that it convinces us that he “has invented a help more powerful than the tenderness of an absent mother.”
Dove Schneck
Comics/Graphic Novel To say bad things. By Beatriz Lema
The author: Born in 1985, Beatriz Lima started doing comics in 2013. Winner of the 2017 Castellao Prize, he has received residency grants in France including: Saying bad things is the fruit.
We love. The strength of this work lies in the relationship between its subject, the author, and his mother, sick and convinced of being haunted by a demon, as well as in its form; one of the actions that calmed the mother of little Bea.
Minh Tran Huynh
Foreign novel Those we kill By Patricia Mello
The author: Originally from São Paulo, he began writing for Brazilian television and theater, then began writing detective novels with a very realistic tone, such as O Matador! Or hell
We love. Between reality and nightmare, pain and shamanism, anger and hope, this novel takes us following a young lawyer with a troubled past who must face violence against women and also nature in the middle of the Amazon forest. The writing, tinged with a certain magical realism, gives great strength to its beloved heroine, the protector of all the murdered.
Bernard Babkin
Source: Le Figaro
