Who was John-Antoine Nau, winner of the first Goncourt prize in 1903? An adventurer as much at home in San Francisco as in Martinique. A poet keen on freedom and drunk on independence rewarded for enemy strength, the award-winning self-published manuscript. Anti-Goncourt par excellence, an absolutely romantic character, John-Antoine Nau well deserved a novel. Echoing the confession of Huysmans, president of the academy: “It’s still the best we’ve crowned! »
Cédric Meletta is the author of John Luchaire, The lost child of the dark years (Perrin), Tomb for Rubirosa, a novel (Séguier), diabolical (Robert Laffont) and bukolicliterary story around Charles Bukowski (editions du Rocher).