New Yorker, wins most prestigious literary award in France!
Jonathan Littell, a New York-born writer living in Barcelona won the Prix Goncourt with his French-language novel "Les Bienveillantes"about a degenerate SS officer in occupied France. We bought the book at the FNAC bookstore in Avignon. It is an incredible best seller in France. But I am not sure I will have the stamina to read all the 894 pages written in impeccable French. Jonathan was raised in France, whereas I moved to Avignon from New York only a couple of years ago. Daunting task!
So for all you students in the US: Study hard and you don't end up in Iraq. Sorry about this slip of the tongue (happened to someone else recently, was it John Kerry?), I meant to say study French and you might even win the Prix Goncourt!
