French author Brigitte Giraud has won France’s top literature prize, the Prix Goncourt, for a novel based on events that led to the death of her husband in a motorbike accident in 1999.
“The personal has no meaning unless it resonates with the collective,” Giraud said on Thursday after learning she won the award for her book Vivre vite (Live Fast), which is based on a personal story but is “much larger" than that.
