France's top Goncourt literary prize goes to a crime writer

  • 11 years ago
Frances’s oldest and most coveted literary prize the Goncourt award has been given to a 62-year- old crime writer.

Pierre Lemaitre’s novel ‘Au revoir la-haut’ , ‘Goodbye up there’ in English, is about people displaced during the First World War.

It has already sold more that 100,000 copies.

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