"We'll Remember It Again in Several Years": in Rennes, These Young People Elected the Goncourt Prize for High School Students
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A jury of 13 high school students from all over France deliberated for the Goncourt High School Prize, this Thursday, November 27, at the City Hall of Rennes. Awarded to Nathacha Appanah, this award concludes a multi-month adventure for these young readers.
Mauritian author, born in 1973, has already won the Femina Prize at the beginning of November for her thirteenth book, "The Night in the Heart".
After winning the Femina Prize at the beginning of the month, the author made the double this Thursday 27 November. Her book seduced a jury composed of 13 high school students.
The Goncourt Prize for high school students, the second best-selling literary prize in France, was awarded this Thursday to Nathacha Appanah for her novel "La nuit au coeur". She had already won the Femina 2025 prize for the same work.
This novel links the fate of three women caught in the spiral of male violence, including Chahinez Daoud, mother of three young children, burned alive by her husband whom she had left in 2021.
Winner of the Femina Prize, the Renaudot Prize for high school students and now the Goncourt Prize for high school students, La nuit au coeur de Nathacha Appanah will benefit from a major draw from the Gallimard editions.
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