Winners of Medicis literary prize announced in France

Paris, Oct 26 (Prensa Latina) The jury of the 2021 edition of the Medicis literary prize on Tuesday announced its winners in the three recognized categories, whose awards were given to two French female writers and a Swedish author.

October 26, 2021
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In the French novel category, the winner was Christine Angot for her work ‘The Journey to the East,’ a heartbreaking story that deals with the incest the writer suffered by her father.

French writer Jakuta Alikavazovic won the 2021 Medicis essay prize for ‘Like a sky in us,’ while Sweden’s Jonas Hassen Khemiri won the foreign novel prize for ‘The Paternal Clause.’

The Medicis prize was founded in 1958 and is awarded every year in November to newcomers or those whose fame does not yet match their talent.

Since 1970, the prize has been awarded to foreign novels, with several Latin Americans among the laureates, such as Cuba’s Alejo Carpentier (1979) and Argentina’s Julio Cortazar (1974).

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