France: the Goncourt 2022 prize awarded to Brigitte Giraud for her book "Live fast"

Brigitte Giraud wins the Goncourt 2022 prize for her book "Vivre vite".

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This is the most anticipated literary prize of the season.

The Goncourt 2022 prize was awarded to Brigitte Giraud for her book

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The selection was narrowed down to four authors.

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The ritual has been the same for more than a century: a lunch at the Drouant restaurant in Paris, to decide who has written the best French novel of the year.

The ten jurors of the most prestigious of French literary prizes, seven men and three women, have delivered their verdict. 

The Goncourt 2022 prize was awarded to Brigitte Giraud for her book

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This book, published by Flammarion, is a look back at the improbable events that led to the death of her husband.

She is the first author to receive this prize since

 by Leïla Slimani in 2016, and the thirteenth woman to be awarded since the creation of Goncourt 120 years ago.

The selection was narrowed down to four finalists: two French authors, Brigitte Giraud and Cloé Korman, an Italian-Swiss, Giuliano da Empoli, and a Haitian, Makenzy Orcel.

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