The novelist Colette Fellous received the Mediterranean literary prize on Friday, also awarded in the foreign literature category to the Italian Paolo Rumiz.
Colette Fellous is rewarded for “Quelques fleurs”, published in February by Editions Gallimard, which evokes the Tunis of her youth and her arrival in Paris at the age of 17, in 1967.
“The Mediterranean is deeply at the heart of my life, it is the Source of all my books. Having grown up near it, facing it and in it, in Tunisia, taught me so much,” she said. , quoted in a press release.
The novelist Colette Fellous, July 6, 2005 in Paris / CATHERINE GUGELMANN / AFP/Archives
Paolo Rumiz is the winner for “Song for Europe” (Arthaud editions), a parable around a Syrian refugee called Evropa.
The Mediterranean Prize is celebrating its 40th anniversary, awarded in Perpignan by the Mediterranean Center for Literature.
The founder of this structure for promoting literature from all shores of the Mediterranean, André Bonet, who remains the secretary of the Mediterranean prizes, is deputy, in charge of culture, to the National Rally mayor of Perpignan Louis Aliot.
Italian writer Paolo Rumiz on May 26, 2012, in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine / Alain JOCARD / AFP/Archives
Other Mediterranean prizes were awarded, among others in the essay category to the Swiss Luisa Ballin for “Venice, Venetia is a fable”, or in the spirituality category to the journalist Sonia Mabrouk for “Reconquering the sacred”, ex aequo with Luc Adrian for a biography of Saint Francis of Assisi.
