The literary prize season continues, with the Interallié prize awarded on Wednesday to Mathieu Palain for

Do not stop running

at the editions of the Iconoclast.

His book tells the life of Toumany Coulibaly, French champion in the 400 meters indoor in 2015, fell into delinquency with serial burglaries.

Mathieu Palain has in common with him being born the same year, in 1988, and having grown up in the southern suburbs, in Essonne.

The book is the result of meetings in the visiting room and the friendship that was born from it.

LITERARY PRIZE> The 2021 Interallié prize for Mathieu Palain



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"This is the first time that I found myself in lists"

"It's completely unexpected," the winner told reporters.

This is the first time that I found myself in lists.

I absolutely feel the distance between here and Vigneux-sur-Seine, and Ris-Orangis.

It has nothing to do.

In an hour I'm no longer there.

"

Toumany Coulibaly is out of prison today and has read the book. “He's having a hard time reading it. He told me at the beginning: I opened it, I read two lines, I closed it, I spent sleepless nights like that… But he read it and he is able today to defend it. We did interviews together where he says: this is my story. There are a lot of things in the book that he doesn't like, but that's his story ”.

Mathieu Palain won in the second round with five votes, announced the president of the jury Philippe Tesson in the restaurant in the Champs-Elysées district where this award is traditionally awarded.

Voices also went to Stéphane Hoffmann for We don't speak more of love, which was a finalist, and to Christophe Donner for

La France goy

and Lilia Hassaine for

Soleil amer

.

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