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France's top literary award goes to book on Spain's civil war

2014/11/05 14:48:14 @Entertainment News Headlines — Yahoo! News

A former psychiatrist, Lydie Salvayre, on Wednesday won France & #039;s top literary prize, the Goncourt, for her book & quot;Pas pleurer & quot; ( & quot;Don & #039;t cry & quot;) in which she interweaves the voices of her mother and a French writer during the Spanish Civil War. Salvayre, the daughter of exiled Spanish Republican parents, beat off competition from favourites Kamel Daoud, an Algerian first-time novelist, and French best-selling author David Foenkinos to win the prize. Born in 1948, Salvayre grew up in the southwest French city of Toulouse after her parents fled the regime of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, learning French only when she went to school.
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