Guillaume Martin has won nine races as a professional bike rider, and the mountains jersey at the Vuelta a España. The Frenchman has finished in the top 10 of the Tour de France twice, and the Vuelta once more. He is a solid bike rider, if not quite a serial winner; many would pay a lot of money to have the career of the 30-year-old.
However, Martin has now won something one of his peers in the peloton have ever won, the Prix Jacques de Fouchier, awarded by the Académie Française for a work of literature that is 'remarkable for its subject matter, composition and style' and written by someone who is not a writer by profession.
