Audrey Azoulay, Minister of Culture and Communication, extends her warm congratulations to the winners of the 2017 Goncourt Awards for First Novel, Short Story and Poetry.
Maryam Madjidi, Goncourt Prize for the first novel with Marx and the doll (Nouvel Attila) , recounts his childhood in Iran and the harshness of a regime that pushes his family into exile in France, a democratic country, a country of freedom of expression. This autobiographical novel is particularly acute in these troubled times and gives full meaning to the values of our Republic.
Raphaël Haroche, Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle, for Return to the sea, (Gallimard), with poetry, delivers a collection of chronicles of lives that are both tender and cruel.
The Minister also wishes to salute Franck Venaille, Goncourt de la poésie-Robert Sabatier, for his work. After the Grand Prix national de poésie of the Ministry of Culture and Communication awarded last March, this new distinction crowns this poet whose texts are charged with the tragic meaning of existence.