The 11th edition of the Fitzgerald Prize rewards the writer Nick Hornby for his novel Just like you, published by Stock editions.
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Fitzgerald Prize: the prestigious Prize which recognizes Nick Hornby for his novel All for youwas organized by Marianne Estene-ChauvinPresident of theFrancis Scott Fitzgerald Academy and owner of the five star hotel The Beautiful Shores at Juan les Pins. Each year, this prestigious award highlights a writer whose book evokes the spirit of the great American author through its situations and the atmosphere that emanates from it. It must also translate as faithfully as possible its incomparable writing, its elegance and the art of living of the 1920s in which bathed Francis Scott Fitzgerald when he resided at Beautiful Shores.
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Prize giving at the Belles Rives
It’s within the walls of the iconic five-star hotel The Beautiful Shores in Juan Les Pins, place of residence of the American writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald, that the jury met at the beginning of the year for an initial selection of five books. He then met twice at the end of April, to designate the titles in the semi-finals. On June 10, 2022, the winner was chosen.
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Bertrand de Saint-Vincent chairs the jury
The discount of Fitzgerald Prize, accompanied by a check for 7500 euros, took place on the terraces of theHotel Belle Rives, facing the crystal clear waters of the Big Blue, with the 2022 winner, Nick Hornby, and members of the jury (journalists and authors accompanied by their latest news). Were present, the president and literary columnist, Bertrand of Saint Vincent (Night – Grasset); Daphne Roulier De Caunes (journalist and presenter of the show The Great Interviews on Canal+); Marie-Dominique Lelievre (Francoise Hardy Distant Star – flammarion); Eric Neuhoff – The Literary Back to School – Albin Michael).
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Journalists and authors members of the jury
But also: Francois Armaneteditor-in-chief at New Observer (menu of his last tape garden partythe sixth and deep album of Florent Marchetpop with the Swedish Likke Liclassical with the Argentinian pianist Nelson Goerner plus funky music from the animated movie “The Minions 2: Once Upon a Time Gru”; Frederic Beigbeder (Barrage against the Atlantic – Grasset), the writer Christophe Ono-dit-Biot who just interviewed Facebook, Nobel prize 71; actress, director and screenwriter Helene Fillieresshooting his next film.
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Nick Hornby portrays Lucy in these terms
“How can anyone say for sure what they hate most in the world? It certainly all depends on how close the hated thing is at the time, whether you do it, listen to it, or eat it. She hated teaching Agatha Christie for the baccalaureate program, she hated all the secretaries of National Education from the Conservative Party, she hated listening to her youngest son practice his trumpet, she hated all kinds of liver, the sight of blood , reality TV shows, grime and the usual abstractions – world poverty, war, pandemics, imminent death of the planet – and even that danger was not imminent.
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An impossible love
All her horrors, she could afford not to think about, most of the time. At that precise moment, at 11:15 a.m., on a cold winter Saturday, what she hated the most in the world was waiting in line in front of the butcher’s shop while listening Emma Baker talk about sex over and over again. Yet when Lucy meets Joseph, she isn’t looking for love. This 42-year-old Londoner has other priorities… But sometimes the person who can make you the happiest is the one you least expect.
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Lucy, white woman, affluent and teacher
All her life, Lucy has followed a path drawn in advance, especially in matters of love. She met a man who looked like her: same age, same background, same dreams; they married and had two children. But now, today, Lucy is a well-off forty-one-year-old teacher, separated from her alcoholic husband, with two dependent sons, who falls in love with a black boy from disadvantaged neighborhoods. Babysitter – butcher, occasional DJ, only 22 years old and still living with his mother. Joseph, whose parents, assigned to their color and their modest social condition, are manipulated by the far right and think they are reaching the holy grail by voting in favor of Brexit. Lucy is going to vote against, of course, but Joseph hesitates…
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A big brother keen on video games and football
As for Lucy’s two children, Dylan, ten years old, and Al, eight years old, an alchemy is created and they see in their babysitter as much a big brother keen on video games and football as the “cool” boyfriend of their mother. Over these 400 pages, there will be estrangements, betrayals, even separations, but love will prevail.
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Love above all
Which direction to take? Faced with her doubts and fears, Lucy as a white woman, feels her certainties waver… Could this be the perfect timing for love at first sight? However, love, tenderness and the taste for life sometimes work miracles and this is precisely what makes the strength of Just like you. In a world fractured by divisions of class, culture and identity, the sentimental fable of the author of Yellow card and High fidelity takes on a subversive humanist dimension that puts the head back in place. Free love, literally, triumphs. Who ignores differences in age, class and skin color, the institution of marriage and the fear of tomorrow.
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Yellow card for Nick Hornby
Cantor of pop culture, Nick Hornby, born April 17, 1957 in Redhill (County of Surrey – England), After studying at the University of Cambridge Nick Hornby takes turns, the habit of teacher, that of journalist for the The Literary Review and the The Sunday Times, then as a writer. It was at the end of the eighties that he began to devote himself to literature and wrote non-fiction works such as 31 songs. Her first novel Yellow card, was an immediate success both in Great Britain and across the Channel. Became a cult author with novels like Fanny Girl (2015), his book High Fidelity (2020)is brought to the screen by the director Stephen Frears and the actor John Cusack for the BBC. Several of his other novels have also had a theatrical release, including Fever Pitch and About a boy.
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A writer with a big heart
During her speech, Marianne Estène-Chauvin thanked the presence of Thierry Vimalthe winner of the last Prices Nice Baie des Anges for his novel For the suffering endured to editions of Cherche midi. The winner of 2022 Fitzgerald Prize announced during his speech that the prize money, amounting to 7500 euros, would be donated to a jazz association in Liverpool, England.
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Just like you
English novel by Nick Hornby.
Translated by Christine Barbaste.
Stock editions, 428 pages, 22.90 euros.
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