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In November 2023, members of the Goncourt Academy awarded the Goncourt Prize for the year 2023. It was presented to Jean-Baptiste Andrea, whose novel Veiller sur elle (in English its title is Watching Over Her) was published by the Paris-based publisherThe Iconoclast in August 2023. The list of nominees included 16 novels by French authors - among the main candidates for victory, French critics singled out the novel Sarah, Suzanne and the Writer by Eric Reynard, Humus by Gaspard Koenig featuring an ecologically themed story and the family drama Sad Tiger by Nège Sinno, that also won the Femina Prize, whose jury consists only of women. By the time the winner was awarded the Goncourt Prize (it has a cash equivalent of 10 euros, but affects the prestige of the writer and the sales of his books), Andrea had also won the Fnac Prize, awarded by the largest book retail chain in France.

With his "Lessons" (2022), Ian McEwan has written his longest text by far. It is about 500 pages long. Partly, this text is autobiographical—and this is not the first time McEwan draws on his own life. In the novel "The Children Act" (2014), one can see a reflection of the writer's legal battle with his own wife over their child. There is undoubtedly a certain courage, self-criticism, self-irony, and, on the other hand, a certain self-indulgence in putting the facts of one's own life into the biography of a common man whose biography is essentially falling apart. The main character of "Lessons," Roland Baines, like Ian McEwan, spends his childhood in foreign military garrisons where his father served, in Libya and Germany; upon his arrival in England, he is sent to boarding school. The story of his brother Robert, whose existence Roland learns about later and who was once given up for adoption, turns out to be autobiographical (even the text of the advertisement for adoption is used verbatim in the novel). The…

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