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Prix Renaudot 2021.Amélie Nothomb's father, Patrick, died in March 2020, during lockdown, and she was unable to say goodbye to him.She decided to dedicate a book to him, Premier Sang, in which she brings him back to life, speaking in the first person. The work is deeply personal, and it drew the attention of critics…

Amélie Nothomb's father, Patrick, died in March 2020, during the pandemic lockdown, and she was unable to say goodbye to him.She decided to dedicate Premier Sang to him, bringing him back to life by having him speak in the first person. The book is far from anodyne: it is a particularly intimate work, and one…

The young novelist wrote this novel at the age of seventeen; it was published seven years later, by Albin Michel.It marked the birth of a major talent, and proved a considerable publishing success.“Amélie Nothomb leads us, with a raging purity and a perverse innocence, into the vicinity of death, and shows us our own face…