The French Academy opened Thursday the season of literary prizes by awarding its Grand Prix novel to Laurent Binet for Civilizations , announced his publisher Grasset on Twitter.
CIVILIZATIONS @LaurentBinetH laureate of the Grand Prix of the novel of the French Academy! pic.twitter.com/2ACeZq66RL
- Grasset and Fasquelle (@EditionsGrasset) October 31, 2019The novelist was chosen in the fourth round by 10 votes against 8 for Bruno de Cessole ( The island of the last man , Albin Michel), then specified the Academy.
He had won the Goncourt of the first novel in 2010
Aged 47, the author of HHhH (Goncourt's first novel in 2010) and The seventh function of language (price of the novel Fnac and price Interralié in 2015) is rewarded this time for an uchronie imagining the conquest of Europe by the Incas in the sixteenth century.
Last year, the Grand Prize of the novel of the French Academy was awarded to Camille Pascal for "The summer of the four kings" (Plon).