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France top literary honour awarded
France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, went to author Gilles Leroy for Alabama Song, reports the Associated Press. Leroy's 12th novel mixes biographical material with the imaginary to portray Zelda, wife of novelist F Scott Fitzgerald, and was finally selected as the winner in the 14th round of balloting by the literary jury.
A second prize, the Renaudot, went to Daniel Pennac for Chagrin d'Ecole (School Blues).
Last year, the Goncourt Prize went to American author Jonathan Littell for his 900-page World War II opus Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones).
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