The Goncourt Prize for high school students awarded to Neige Sinno for her book “Triste Tigre” on incest

The author has established herself as the figure of the literary comeback. Already winner of the Femina Prize, she therefore won with the Goncourt des lycéens, a second and great reward for her book on incest. But even more, a book about the powers of literature. In Triste Tigre, she questions what fiction can, and cannot, do. Can she save? Neige Sinno brings together her readings, from Woolf to Faulkner via Nabokov, Toni Morrison, Virginie Despentes...

“I did not write this novel as a provocation, but as a challenge: dare to think, dare to reflect, dare to say,” explained the author to Le Figaro, during the first meeting of the high school students at Goncourt. Even if I didn't know who I was addressing, I hope that the reader that I constructed in my text and who exists today dares to think, to set ideas, observations, questions in motion. . When I see a person who says to me 'I've been wondering', it makes me happy." Without a doubt, young readers were won over by his lines. “Adolescence is an age when we ask ourselves philosophical questions, about violence, about good, evil… High school students are at the moment when they are going to define their lives, their relationship with others. They think about dominant-dominated, man-woman relationships... They are ready for serious topics. »