World Literary Awards

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Prix Renaudot (Prix Théophraste-Renaudot) ておふらすと=るのどしょう

Edition 83 (2008)

Literary awardFrench LiteratureNovelNonfiction

Winners

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Tierno Monénembo てぃえるの もねんぼ Winner

A historical novel about the ambitions of an explorer who dreams of founding his own kingdom in West Africa, with colonial fantasy and reality in uneasy balance.

An explorer’s colonial fantasy becomes the engine of the novel.

historical fictioncolonialismadventure