L'Anomalie

Prix Goncourt · 2020 · Winner

GallimardAugust 20, 2020Literary Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Prix Goncourt	2020	Winner

About This Book

A passenger jet flying from Paris to New York passes through a freak storm and lands — then lands again three months later, with the same passengers, creating two sets of identical people who must somehow come to terms with the other's existence.

About the Author

Hervé Le TellierFR

Hervé Le Tellier is a French writer, linguist, and president of the Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle), the experimental literary collective founded by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais. Born in Paris in 1957, he has been a member of Oulipo since 1992 and embodies the group's spirit of playful intellectual rigor. Le Tellier is the author of numerous novels, essays, and humorous works. Read more →