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Gwenaël Bulteau, school teacher author of detective stories and then of a first novel, on Thursday won the Landerneau thriller prize for
The Republic of the Weak.
Published in February by La Manufacture des livres, this first novel tells the complex affair that lurks, in the midst of the Dreyfus affair and pre-electoral unrest in 1898, behind the death of a child from the working-class district of Croix Rousse in Lyon.
6,000 euros and a promotional campaign
The president of the jury, the successful novelist Michel Bussi, praised in a press release "the strength of an investigation with multiple twists and a gallery of characters described with a striking humanity".
"Gwenaël Bulteau plunges us into a world of violence, of chaos in the face of the rise of populism, but also pays tribute to the brotherhood of the weak, at the heart of a fragile Republic which forgets them," he added.
The author is passionate about history who teaches in Vendée.
In 2017, he won the prize for the new Quais du thriller for a survey located in Paris in 1913.
The Landerneau polar prize of the E. Leclerc cultural spaces is endowed with 6,000 euros and a promotional campaign in the bookstores of this brand.
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