Authors from here continue to stand out abroad. After Kevin Lambert, in the running for the Goncourt and December prizes, it is Louis-Daniel Godin’s turn to be nominated for a prestigious literary prize in France. His novel Le compte est bon is one of the 12 works selected by the jury for the Wepler Prize – La Poste Foundation.
This award, which is in its 26th edition, will be awarded to “an unclassifiable contemporary literary work” on November 13 in Paris, the organization indicates in a press release. A special mention will also be awarded to a second title.
Louis-Daniel Godin’s first novel, Le compte est bon follows a protagonist who asks himself: “Do we owe someone a debt when we are adopted?” »
“I don’t know the experience of all adopted children, but I have the intuition that when you are adopted, you tell yourself that you could have been elsewhere, that you could have found another family or maybe – perhaps another more suitable child could have been in his place,” the man who is also a professor in the Literary Studies department at the University of Quebec in Montreal recently told La Presse.
The count is good was published on August 16 by La Peuplade editions.
