If Santa Claus exists, perhaps he will leave a book at the foot of the tree, a first novel recently in the running for the Goncourt for high school students and the Renaudot and which has finally just won the Goncourt for prisoners….
The ideal conditions, that’s its title. Holy Santa Claus, nothing escapes him. And certainly not its authorMokhtar Amoudigraduate of Paris-I-Panthéon Sorbonne University in business law, European law and taxation, whose novel is directly inspired by his childhood in foster families.
Suffice to say that the questions of filiation, anchoring, survival, prison, literary liberation and urban disenchantment… he knows that.
→ The Goncourt site for prisoners here
Mokhtar Amoudi’s musical choices
Fonky Family Street art
Kery James Two exits
Mafia K’1 fry CBR.