Delphine de Vigan sacred by the Goncourt Award for students – Actualitté.com

Fnac and the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research, the Prix Goncourt High Schoolers organizers have met on Tuesday 1 December the 13 students in Rennes national delegates for final deliberations in camera.
After two months of reading 14 books nominated for the Prix Goncourt High Schoolers, and after numerous discussions and meetings with the current authors in October, the students chose to award the 28th Prix Goncourt High Schoolers to Delphine de Vigan for his novel Based on a True Story published by JC. Lattès.

In this novel that looks like a psychological thriller, Delphine de Vigan ventures in balancing on the ridge that separates the real from fiction. This book is also a dive in the heart of an age fascinated by True.
Delphine de Vigan is the author of No and Me (Booksellers Prize 2008 adapted to film by Zabou Breitman), The hours underground (2009), adapted for Arte by Philippe Harel and There is no reason to night (2012) which won the Prix du Roman Fnac and the Renaudot high school students that year.

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, Minister National Education, and Alexandre Bompard, CEO of FNAC, were keen to congratulate the winner and thanked the students who engaged in reading these books and in the deliberations that enable awarded today Price.
Created in 1986 at the initiative of Fnac and the Ministry of Education, with the agreement of the Goncourt Academy, this award provides an opportunity to almost 2 000 students from 15 to 18 years of reading and studying 14 books.
This jury from a fifty high school classes (second, first, terminal or BTS, generalist, scientific or technical) had two months to read each of the novels. Meetings with authors were also organized throughout this period.
In 2014, the 27th Prix Goncourt High Schoolers was awarded to David Foenkinos for his novel Charlotte . It has sold 425,000 copies (for publication)

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