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Prix Femina · 2019 · Winner

L'Arbalète / GallimardAugust 22, 2019Literary Fiction

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Prix Femina	2019	Winner

About This Book

A writer who rediscovers a childhood friend who has become an obsessive hitchhiker, living perpetually on the road, in a meditation on freedom, commitment, and the choices that define a life.

About the Author

Sylvain PrudhommeFR

Sylvain Prudhomme is a French novelist born in 1979 in Grasse. He grew up partly in Africa — his father worked for a development organization in Cameroon and Namibia — and this experience of displacement and cross-cultural encounter is central to much of his fiction. He has also lived in Italy, experience that feeds into his body of work. Read more →