Minotaure

Name: Minotaure
ISBN: 9782226511874

by Boris Bergmann

Prix Goncourt · 2026 · Shortlist

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Albin MichelAugust 19, 2026Literary Fiction256 pagesISBN 9782226511874

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Prix Goncourt	2026	Shortlist	“Boris Bergmann's autobiographical novel about a son born outside his father's desire, figured as a minotaur condemned to love everyone he meets.”

About This Book

An autobiographical novel about a son born outside his father's desire who answers that origin with an excess of lived and invented stories. Bergmann figures the narrator as a minotaur condemned to love everyone he meets. Named to the deuxième sélection of the 2026 Prix Goncourt.

About the Author

Boris BergmannFrench

Boris Bergmann is a French novelist born in Paris in 1992. He is the author of Nage libre, which received the Prix de la Vocation in 2018, and Les Corps insurgés, which received the Prix Fénéon in 2020. He has been a resident at the Villa Médicis and the Villa Kujoyama. Read more →