The nineteenth edition of the Nice Baie des Anges prize crowned Sylvain TESSON for his novel “S’abandonner à vivre,” published by Gallimard. The jury selected this work from among eight competing novels. The winner succeeds Valérie Tong Cuong (L’atelier des miracles, J-C. Lattès).
Sylvain Tesson has also published with Gallimard “Une vie à coucher dehors” (Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle, 2009) and “Dans les forêts de Sibérie” (Prix Médicis essay, 2011).
Selected by writers and journalists from Nice-Matin, a partner of the Azurean literary prize, a popular jury of ten readers, lovers of books and words, participated in the deliberations.
The Nice Baie des Anges prize will be awarded to Sylvain TESSON by Christian ESTROSI, Deputy Mayor of Nice, President of the Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolis, on Friday, June 13, at the opening of the Nice Book Festival, which will be held under the presidency of Mr. Edgard MORIN.
Since its creation in 1996 at the initiative of the City of Nice, this literary prize has awarded novelists such as Patrick Renaudot, Raoul Mille, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, Gérard de Cortanze, Claude Imbert, Jean-Noël Pancrazi, Paula Jacques, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Richard Millet, Eric Fottorino, Jean-Paul Enthoven, Didier Van Cauwelaert, Saphia Azzeddine / René Frégni, Daniel Cordier, Laurent Seksik, Aurélie Hustin de Gubernatis, Romain Slocombe, and Valérie Tong Cuong.
