Brigitte Giraud (born 1960, Sidi-Bel-Abbès in Algeria) is a French writer, author of novels and short stories. She was awarded the 2022 Prix Goncourt for her autobiographical novel Vivre vite (English: Live Fast).[1]
Brigitte Giraud
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Giraud in 2017
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| Born | 1960 (age 63–64) Sidi-Bel-Abbès, French Algeria |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | French |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Notable awards | Prix Goncourt (2022) |
Born in 1960,[2] Brigitte Giraud grew up in Rillieux-la-Pape, France, before settling in Lyon.[3] She has studied English, German and Arabic.[4]
Giraud has worked as a bookseller, translator and journalist.[2] For her first book, La chambre des parents (1997), she received the Prix Littéraire des Étudiants and for Nico, her second novel, the Prix Lettres frontière Rhône-Alpes.[5] In 2001, she received a special mention for the Wepler Prize for À présent.[6] She won the Goncourt short story prize in 2007 for her collection L'amour est très surestimé (English: Love Is Very Overrated),[7] then the Grand Prix Jean Giono for Une année étrangère (English: A Year Abroad) in 2009.[8]
On 3 November 2022, she was awarded the 2022 Prix Goncourt for Vivre vite, a récit about the death of her husband, Claude, in 1999 at the age of 41.[9] She is the thirteenth woman to receive the Goncourt since the prize's establishment in 1903.[10] Giraud won after the jury underwent fourteen rounds of voting, the maximum amount permitted. The final vote ended in a stalemate and, in accordance with the rules, the president of the Goncourt Academy cast a deciding vote, selecting Giraud's novel over Giuliano da Empoli's The Wizard of the Kremlin (Le mage du Kremlin).[11]
Giraud lives in Lyon.[3] Her husband, Claude, died in a motorbike accident in 1999.[12]
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