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Prix Goncourt · 2014 · Winner

SeuilAugust 21, 2014Literary Fiction

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Prix Goncourt	2014	Winner

About This Book

A formally inventive novel interweaving the narrator's voice with the Castilian-inflected French of her aged mother, who witnessed the early euphoria and subsequent terror of the Spanish Civil War as a young woman. Draws on the testimonies of Georges Bernanos.

About the Author

Lydie SalvayreFR

Lydie Salvayre is a French novelist and psychiatrist born in 1948 in Auterive, Haute-Garonne, to parents who fled the Spanish Civil War. Her work is characterized by dark humor, linguistic experimentation, and an unflinching engagement with violence, power, and trauma. She worked for many years as a psychiatrist, an experience that deeply informs her fiction. Read more →