The twelfth Literary Prize The world It was delivered on Wednesday, September 4, to Maryline Desbiolles for The staple (ed. Sabine Wespieser). The writer continues a work anchored in the hinterland of Nice, where she lives. It is in these stony landscapes that a young girl, Emma Fulconis, runs with wild freedom, until the day when a dog bite immobilizes her and pushes her to look back at the family past brought to her by her uncle, where she grew up. a harki camp. The way in which the author puts her torrential and dancing language at the service of this story of multiple fractures is rewarded by our jury. Chaired by Jérôme Fenoglio, director of WorldIt is made up of journalists working in the “World of Books” (Jean Birnbaum, Florent Georgesco, Raphaëlle Leyris and Nicolas Weill) and in the four “corners” of the World: Emmanuel Davidenkoff (editorial development), Zineb Dryef (“M Le magazine du Monde”), Gaëlle Dupont (Planète), Clara Georges (“Intimités”), Raphaëlle Rérolle (Grands Reporters), Solenn de Royer (Politics) and Alain Salles (Debates and Ideas). The staple is successful sad tigerfrom Sinno Snow (POL).
Do you have any special relationship with the newspaper “Le Monde”?
I have been subscribed to it for a long time and it is the only newspaper I receive in paper form. It helps me a lot when I peel my vegetables, and I love the moment when, opening it, I discover or rediscover elements. And then I wrote several columns for them, including one on July 15, 2016, after the Nice attack. I was on the scene. When The world He asked me, I felt so bad that I started by refusing. And then I told myself that it was the only thing I could do. I was told a lot about this text about an attack that many people felt that they had not been treated like others. Finally, in relation to my report to WorldIt was after reading an interview with Sabine Wespieser in “Le Monde des livres” that I decided to join this house. She spoke of the independence of her house, which was 20 years old, and I felt a vibration, the commitment of this wonderful woman. I had practically left my previous house. [Seuil] And I immediately sent her a message. She replied immediately, everything happened in an instant.
You received the Femina Prize in 1999 for “Anchise” (Seuil). How do you understand prizes and their place in literary life?
The Femina was a total surprise. Also, Seuil didn’t believe it, I wasn’t in Paris, I had to catch a plane in a hurry. I remember Pascal Cherki. [alors PDG de la maison] shouting at me on the phone: “It is the triumph of virtue!”
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