{"id":664,"date":"2008-11-11T04:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=664"},"modified":"2008-11-11T04:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T12:54:00","slug":"the-goncourt-to-an-afghan-the-renaudot-to-a-guinean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/the-goncourt-to-an-afghan-the-renaudot-to-a-guinean\/","title":{"rendered":"The Goncourt to an Afghan, the Renaudot to a Guinean"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Below, the Guardian’s article on the winners of France’s two most prestigious prizes, which this year go to two francophone writers: Atiq Rahimi, originally from Afghanistan, and Tierno Mon\u00e9nembo from Guinea. It is also the first Goncourt that goes to P.O.L. the most adventurous and avant-garde Paris publisher of the last 25 years (most years it is one of three big publishers, Gallimard, Grasset or Le Seuil who garner the prize, which has often given rise to rumors of more or less rigged juries).<\/p>\n

In an interview, Atiq Rahmini, who got the Goncourt for Syngu\u00e9 sabour (The Patience Stone \u2014<\/i> an Iranian title) <\/i>his fourth novel, the first he has written in French, said: “What a pleasure to write in an other language!” A feeling I share very deeply.<\/div>\n

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