One day after failing to make it from the list of finalists for the prize awarded by the Goncourt Academy, the Frenchman Emmanuel Carrère (Paris, 1957) won the Medici Award for the work Kolkhozean intimate portrait of his relationship with his mother that reproduces, in turn, a “subjective history” of Russia and Georgia.
After being announced, the one born in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France declared, in a Parisian restaurant, that “It is nice to receive the Medici because it is really a literary award“, and he also confessed that he did not feel any injustice for not having obtained the Goncourt, since he likes the literary work of Laurent Mauvignieralthough he did find it “curious” not to have “any vote.”
In addition to Carrère, the Médicis jury awarded the foreign novel prize to the British novel Nina Allan by Good Neighbors and the test one Fabrice Gabriel by At the Central cinemaa book tribute to the seventh art.
Emmanuel Carrère, hereditary of Montaigne and Rousseau
four years ago, Emmanuel Carrère won the 2021 Princess of Asturias Award for Letters, shortly before opening the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival with Ouistreham. Some time ago, in 2017, French was recognized in Mexico with the FIL Prize for Literature in Romance Languages.
“Heir to Montaigne and Rousseau, the autobiographical acquires in his writing a critical dimension that allows him to paint himself without concessions and to boldly explore shadow areas of the contemporary condition,” wrote the jury for the latter laurel in its minutes.
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The Frenchman, author of more than 15 books that include titles such as The jaguar’s friend, The mustache, The adversary, Lemons, It’s good to have a place to go o Yogajoins the list of laureates with the Medici Prizewhere he meets names such as Monique Wittig, Georges Perec, Paul Auster, Julia Deck, among others.
Emmanuel Carrère’s work is published in Spanish for Spain and Latin America by Editorial Anagrama.