Paris (AFP)
The novel "Human Nature" by Serge Joncour won a new literary prize on Friday, the François Sommer prize, which rewards a work guided by a humanist ecology.
"Human Nature", the fourteenth novel by this 59-year-old writer, won the Femina prize in November.
The jury for the François Sommer Prize said in a press release that it wanted to "crown a tonic text, offering a fine analysis, but ultimately full of humor and indulgence, of the ecological dangers facing our humanity".
This rural novel depicts the changes in the French countryside at the end of the 20th century, through the fate of a farming family from the Lot.
We see a world going from disaster to disaster (the drought of 1976, Chernobyl, the storm of December 1999) and yielding to the coldest economic rationality.
The François Sommer Prize, created in 1980 and endowed with 15,000 euros, is dedicated to the memory of an industrialist from the Ardennes, resistant, who had worked for the protection of endangered species and the creation of a ministry in charge of environment, obtained in 1971.
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