French Writer Brigitte Girot Honored with Prix Goncourt for 'Vivre Vite'

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Brigitte Girod, winner of the 2022 Prix Goncourt
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[Asia Economy Reporter Seomideum] French author Brigitte Giro has been honored with this year's Prix Goncourt for her work Vivre vite. The Prix Goncourt is the most prestigious literary award in France and is considered one of the world's top three literary prizes alongside the Nobel Prize in Literature and the UK's Man Booker Prize.

According to major foreign media, on the 3rd (local time), the Prix Goncourt jury announced that they decided to award the prize to Giro, who was born in Algeria and raised in Lyon, France, for her autobiographical novel.

This work is her eighteenth, published last August. It retraces the events leading up to the death of her husband Claude Giro in a motorcycle accident in June 1999 and explores the process of seeking the reasons behind his loss.

Didier Decoin, a French screenwriter and a 1977 Prix Goncourt laureate who served as a juror, praised the work, saying that Giro "posed the question of what fate is in a very simple and sincere manner."

Giro, the 13th female author to win the Prix Goncourt in its 120-year history, expressed after receiving the award, "I did not receive this prize because I am a woman, but because I have devoted myself to literature for many years."

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