The Goncourt for the first novel was awarded this Monday to Maylis Besserie for Le tiers temps , a novel imagining the last days of Irish playwright and writer Samuel Beckett.
The Goncourt of the short story was awarded to Anne Serre for Au coeur d'un été tout en or (Mercure de France), the Goncourt of the biography to Thierry Thomas for Hugo Pratt, trait pour trait (Grasset) and the Goncourt of the poetry to Michel Deguy for all of his work.
Support for booksellers
The members of the Goncourt academy have chosen to award their spring prizes on the first day of deconfinement "to be in phase with the long-awaited reopening of bookstores and to support the profession".
Published in February, Le tiers temps (Gallimard) evokes the last days of Samuel Beckett in a Parisian retirement home called "Le Tiers-temps". The playwright waits for the end of his life there and remembers the passions, the sufferings and the joys that marked his existence. His memories alternate with observing the daily life of the establishment.
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