It is the surprise of this 42nd edition of the Livre sur la Place, already winner of the Stanislas Prize 2020, the original novelist Lorraine Laurent Petitmangin was elected Gold Leaf 2020 by the journalists of the jury of this media prize which brings together France Télévisions, L’Est Républicain and France Bleu.
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What to night, (Ed. La Manufacture de Livres) of the author of Lorraine origin, Laurent Petitmangin, is awarded the 2020 Gold Leaf Prize of the City of Nancy – Media Prize France Bleu Lorraine, L’Est Républicain, France 3 Grand Est by the jury of journalists.
From left to right, Nathalie Broutin (France Bleu), Sarah Polacci (front, France Bleu), Pascal Salciarini (L’Est Républicain) and Agnès Penneroux (France 3 Grand Est), the 2020 jury of the Gold Leaf Prize.
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An Air France executive, the 55-year-old author was born in 1965 into a family of railway workers and lived in Metz for his first twenty years before leaving for Lyon to continue his higher education.
In this first novel, already available in bookstores and in the process of being translated, he evokes the story of a father, a railway worker in eastern France who is raising his two sons alone and discovers their difficulties. As when he discovers that his eldest has become a stranger to him by approaching the National Front when he himself was a socialist militant. Modesty and difficulties of the father-son bond are one of the springs of this novel which is unanimous among booksellers and critics.
“What you need at night” by Lorrain Laurent Petitmangin.
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Double hit
This is the second prize that the Lorraine author obtains this year, on the occasion of the 42nd edition of the first literary re-entry fair. At the end of August, Laurent Petitmangin had already obtained the Stanislas Prize – Best first novel of the literary season for his novel.
The Stanislas Prize jury met on Thursday August 20, 2020 in Nancy to elect the 2020 winner: Laurent Petitmangin for “What is necessary at night” (La Manufacture de Livres). ????????
Prize giving with the winner on 12/09 at the Town Hall #Nancy #lsp2020 https://t.co/9kqdRxLwyA pic.twitter.com/fG64xUFprH– The Book on the Place (@Livresurlaplace) August 20, 2020
These two prizes will be awarded to him on the occasion of the event. These discounts followed by an interview are public but on registration prior.
You can find an interview with Laurent Petitmangin on the occasion of his visit to France Inter on August 20 (video) for the Grand Interview, on the occasion of the revelation of the France Inter-Le Point selection for the literary re-entry.
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