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Sylvain Prudhomme, 2019 Femina Prize

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French writer Sylvain Prudhomme in the studio at RFI (November 2019).

© RFI/Fanny Renard

By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint

Born in 1979, Sylvain Prudhomme is the author of reports and novels that have won several awards and have been translated abroad, including

,

as well as

.

With his eighth novel entitled

, he is the winner of the Prix Femina 2019. (Replay)

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Cover of the Prix Femina 2019 ©L'Arbalète/Gallimard

“I found the hitchhiker in a small town in the south-east of France, after years of not thinking about him.

I found him in love, installed, became a father.

I remembered everything that had made me decide, in the past, to ask him out of my life.

I knocked on his door.

I met Mary.

(Presentation of the publisher

)

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