Goncourt high school students: Clara Dupont-Monod rewarded for her novel "To adapt"

Europe 1 with AFP 1:48 p.m., November 25, 2021

The 2021 high school students' Goncourt was awarded Thursday in Rennes to Clara Dupont-Monod for her novel "To adapt", published by Stock, announced the jury made up of high school students from all over France.

"To adapt" was elected in the first ballot, with 8 votes out of 13, among the five finalist novels, said the young jurors.

In this novel, already consecrated by the Prix Femina, the 48-year-old editor and journalist imagines siblings upset by the arrival of a disabled child.

A novel also in the running for Goncourt

"I am really very moved. It's a bit as if they welcomed a little this siblings who had to adapt, I am really very moved," Clara Dupont-Monod responded by telephone, sobs in her voice.

This novel was also in the running for the Goncourt Prize, awarded last October to Senegalese Mohamed Mbougar Sarr for his book 

, published by Philippe Rey.

Clara Dupont-Monod is to receive the prize Thursday evening in Paris at the Ministry of National Education.

Each year since the creation of the Goncourt des Lycéens in 1988, around 2,000 high school students from all over France participate in the choice of the winner.