{"id":594986,"date":"2024-04-22T14:20:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T14:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/?p=594986"},"modified":"2024-05-17T14:25:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T14:25:21","slug":"goncourt-triste-tigre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/press-release\/goncourt-triste-tigre\/","title":{"rendered":"Triste tigre by Neige Sinno wins US Goncourt Prize Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New York, April 22, 2024<\/strong> \u2013 Yesterday afternoon a jury of university students named Triste tigre<\/em> by Neige Sinno (published by P.O.L.) the winner of the 2023 US Goncourt Prize Selection. Hosted at Villa Albertine by National Book Award shortlisted David Diop (Beyond the Door of No Return \/ La Porte du voyage sans retour<\/em> 2023), the award ceremony was the culmination of months of study and debate undertaken by students at 10 American universities around the four-book Prix Goncourt shortlist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Prix Goncourt is France\u2019s most prestigious literary prize. International Goncourt Prize Selections\u2014made by university students in 40 countries\u2014are a global literary barometer, gauging how the shortlist for the Prix Goncourt resonates with different younger audiences around the world.  The US prize, now in its third year, is organized and supported by Villa Albertine, in partnership with the Acad\u00e9mie Goncourt and universities from the French Embassy\u2019s Centers of Excellence network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The student jury noted that Triste tigre, <\/em>a vivid narrative of childhood trauma, was selected not the for the pleasure of reading it, but for the challenges and questions that it confronts the reader with. \u201cTriste tigre<\/em> made me question the world of literature, and investigate my own existence as a reader,\u201d one juror noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Triste tigre<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From ages 7 to 14, Neige Sinno endured repeated sexual abuse by her stepfather. Years later, she tells her harrowing story and reflects on the mechanisms of incest in this \u201cforensic exploration of how to speak about the unspeakable and how to define the domain of the unspeakable\u201d (Natasha Lehrer, The<\/em> Times Literary Supplement<\/em>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neige Sinno is a writer, translator, and academic.  Her latest book, Triste Tigre<\/em> (P.O.L., 2023),has won many literary prizes, including the Femina Prize, the Prix Goncourt des Lyc\u00e9ens, and the Prix Litt\u00e9raire Le Monde<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThis year a record number of universities participated in the US Goncourt Prize Selection, something that we are very proud of and plan to continue building in the future. Programs like these not only promote great French and Francophone literature abroad, but also continually inspire and strengthen foreign language departments and their students, which is a very important part of our mission,\u201d said Mohamed Bouabdallah<\/strong>, Cultural Counselor of France in the United States and Director of Villa Albertine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final jury was comprised of student representatives from the 10 participating universities: Duke, Harvard, NYU, Princeton, Yale, MIT, Columbia, University of Florida, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Virginia. Each institution is part of the French Embassy\u2019s Centers of Excellence<\/a> network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neige Sinno\u2019s Triste tigre<\/em> was selected from a shortlist that also included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n