Without Faith and Law was among a selection of 24 youth books to be decided – S.LEBLANC / 20 MINUTES
A Nugget golden for a western, it finally makes sense, even if it’s the first time that a novel has won the supreme award
Literature Fair and the Montreuil youth press. Without faith or law is an initiatory and feminist novel mixed with adventure signed Marion Brunet at
Pocket Youth. To recommend, according to its publisher, from 15 years.
An Outlaw Woman and a 16-Year-Old Teen
It’s a road movie hectic and surprising, between two heroes forming an improbable couple: a bank robbery outlaw whose head is priced and who seeks to find his daughter and a 16-year-old adolescent, son of a violent pastor, who ‘she took hostage … During their journey through the American West, one will obviously learn a lot from the other, and vice versa … It is also a novel that “strikes genres” and advocates a salutary “Fight for emancipation”, in the words of the young author, absent from the show because retained in Marseille where she runs a writing workshop. In a letter, she thanked all those who had defended her book “colt au poing”.
“Without Faith or Law”, by Marion Brunet obtains the 2019 Gold Nugget https://t.co/2NoTFRRQLP
– Youth BibliOProfs (@jeunelitpas) November 27, 2019
This Gold Nugget is a major new award forMarion brunet, a former specialized educator who became a youth author, noted for her numerous books published by Sarbacane and whose first adult noir novel Circular summer chez Albin Michel had received the 2018 Police Literature Grand Prix.
The authors fill up
Note that all the other prizes awarded this Wednesday evening in Montreuil have been won by women.
Nugget of the illustrated book: Noon by Rébecca Dautremer (Sarbacane)
Nugget of the comic strip: The Vermeilles by Camille Jourdy (Actes Sud BD)
Nugget of junior fiction: Akita and grizzly bears by Caroline Solé and Gaya Wisniewski (Mouche / L’Ecole des loisirs)
Nugget of teen fiction: The Last of the Plain by Nathalie Bernard (Thierry Magnier)
