Literature
Lyonel Trouillot in Final Four for Goncourt Literary Prize
- Wednesday, October 26, 2011 2:35 PM
PARIS, France (defend.ht) - The Académie Goncourt published Tuesday, October 25, 2011, for its third selection, the list of four finalists for the prestigious French literary society prize, which will be presented November 2, 2011, which contains the Haitian poet and writer Lyonel Trouillot.
Lyonel Trouillot, portrays in "The beautiful human love" a Haitian and a stranger with two voices, staggered but merged at the end of the novel.
"This world produces discomfort, that's what I'm talking about in this book of fragments of reality, especially predators who run Haiti and leave nothing to the other," says the author.
Others
Alexis Jenni (48 years) "The French Art of War" (Gallimard). Alexis Jenni, an ambitious fresco brush. He began the thread of a story full of blood and fighting between the Indochina and Algeria. A reflection on the legacy of colonial conflicts, intergenerational transmission and the concept of national identity.
Sorj Chalandon (59) "Back to Killybegs" (Grasset) is the conflict that has torn Northern Ireland, at the heart of the novel "Back to Killybegs" of Sorj Chalandon, Libération journalist for 34 years. The writer has plunged this country he loves and knows so well.
Carole Martinez (45) "From the Field of Whispers" (Gallimard) The ghosts, saints and medieval legends haunt the novel Carole Martinez "From the Field of Whispers," Confessions from the grave of a maiden who chose s'emmurer to escape a husband scorned.
The judges of the Goncourt Literary Society will meet one last time Wednesday, November 2, 2011, to announce the winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt .
Related 09.07.2011: Goncourt Academy Places Lyonel Trouillot as Finalist for Literary Prize
Related 06.23.2011: "Literature has not changed the world" - Lyonel Trouillot
Source: Le Matin
