Paris (AFP)
The Prince Pierre Literary Prize of Monaco was awarded to the French writer of Vietnamese origin Linda Lê, announced Wednesday the Foundation of the same name.
This prize, created in 1951, honors each year a renowned French writer for his entire work, and is endowed with a prize of 25,000 euros.
Linda Lê was born in 1963 in Dalat, Vietnam. In 1969, his family went to Saigon to flee the war. In French high school, she is passionate about Victor Hugo and Balzac. In 1977, she left Vietnam for France.
Linda Lê is a critic in the literary magazine and has always had a love for the French language. His style "combines a kind of immediate lucidity, a rigorous truth and a verbal elegance.In each of his novels is staged a fight, personal or imaginary (" The Three Fates "," The Dawns "," Dead Letter ") , where the serenity of writing contrasts with the brutality of the situation, "notes the statement of the Foundation.
It has been widely translated into English, Dutch and Portuguese.
Her first novel, "A So Kind Vampire", was published in 1986 at La Table Ronde, but it is mainly at Éditions Christian Bourgois that she will then publish her novels, short stories and essays, except "The Gospels of Crime", very noticed at its publication in 1992, at Julliard, and which will then be reissued at Christian Bourgois.
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