Pas pleurer, by Lydie Salvayre, has been awarded this year's prix Goncourt, the biggest (prestige-wise) of all the French literary prizes, beating out Meursault, contre-enquête by Kamel Daoud five votes to four (or six to four ? as some reports have it) in the fifth round of voting.
See also the Seuil publicity page; MacLehose plan to publish it in English in 2016.
While the prize money is truly trivial ("Le montant de son prix est de 10 euro") the cash rewards are big: as Le Figaro reports they're going for a 250,000 printing (after having only put 22,000 in circulation pre-prize) and figure they might get to near half a million in sales .....
Quite a bit (though still only a fraction of the total ...) by Salvayre has been translated into English -- and all of those titles are under review at the complete review:
While the prize money is truly trivial ("Le montant de son prix est de 10 euro") the cash rewards are big: as Le Figaro reports they're going for a 250,000 printing (after having only put 22,000 in circulation pre-prize) and figure they might get to near half a million in sales .....
Quite a bit (though still only a fraction of the total ...) by Salvayre has been translated into English -- and all of those titles are under review at the complete review: