BRIGITTE GIRAUD. The 56-year-old French author, Brigitte Giraud, is awarded the Goncourt, the most prestigious French-speaking literary prize, this Thursday, November 3, 2022 for her book Vivre vite.
And the Goncourt 2022 prize is awarded to Brigitte Giraud! This Thursday, November 3, 2022, the French writer receives the oldest and most famous French-speaking literary awards for her book live fast. The 56-year-old author, hailed by critics, is the thirteenth woman to receive the very prestigious prize in the history of Goncourt, which is already 120 years old. Before Brigitte Giraud’s award, we have to go back to 2016 for a woman to obtain the same recognition with the victory of Leïla Slimani for Soft song.
For Brigitte Giraud, being awarded the Goncourt is a highly anticipated coronation after fourteen published works ranging from novels to stories through collections of short stories because the author knows how to play his art in several styles. The 56-year-old Lyonnaise was however able to get a foretaste of this award in 2007 when her short story entitled Love is very overrated receives the Goncourt prize for the short story and two later when the 2009 Jean-Giono jury prize is awarded to his book Un foreign year. The fact remains that in 2022, Brigitte Giraud is rewarded for a very personal work whose emotion has overwhelmed readers. By receiving the Goncourt prize this Thursday between the walls of the Drouant restaurant in the heart of the Opéra district in Paris, as tradition dictates, the writer is rewarded with a check for 10 euros but ensures colossal sales of his latest novel.
Living fast, the personal story of Brigitte Giraud
live fast, the 208-page story published by Flammarion in 2022 and written by Brigitte Giraud is inspired by the story of the writer and a tragic moment, the death of her husband who died at the age of 41 in a motorcycle accident in 1999. The book follows the thread of a countdown before this disappearance and retraces the journey of a couple in love and in love with the arts between literature and music while drawing the portrait of Claude, guitarist and rock critic. The writer Brigitte Giraud talks about this novel by evoking the project that the couple, parent of an 8-year-old boy, Theo, had to afford a house on the hills of Lyon after twenty years of living together. The emotion felt by the reader browsing the pages of live fast is indisputable since he attaches himself to this family before having to suffer from the disappearance of the main character who also played the leading role in the life of Brigitte Giraud.
The author took more than 20 years after the loss of her companion to write the book that she dedicates to her son. Yet in 2001, his book Now, lingered over the days following the accident and up to Claude’s burial. In the end, it is all of Brigitte Giraud’s work that takes on a little of her life on each page.