Paris (AFP)

The novelist Jean-Paul Dubois received Monday the Goncourt prize, the most prestigious literary prize in the French-speaking world, for "All men do not live the world in the same way" (L'Olivier), a shocking and nostalgic novel about lost happiness.

Already crowned by the Femina prize (in 2004 for "A French life"), the Toulouse-based Jean-Paul Dubois, a 69-year-old, discreet and popular writer, has been building a work that has seduced by its delicacy and profoundness over the last thirty years. humanity.

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