Titus did not like Berenice, but received a Medici award

PARIS. The winner of the Medici Prize was the finalist of Prix Goncourt Natalie Azule.

After the relative bad luck in the Goncourt final and the prize that went to Matthias Enard in November, luck smiled on Nathalie Azoulai. The novel "Titus did not like Berenice" (Titus n’aimait pas Bérénice) brought her victory in the literary prize Prix Médicis. Medici was founded 55 years after its eminent brother. She owed her appearance to the writer Girod and was intended mainly to support unknown and talented writers who were not afraid to experiment with language and style.

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Azoula was lucky to study at the famous École normale supérieure, formed during the time of the Convention. The surname of the great scientists, writers, philosophers: Pasteur, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Romain Rollan testifies to the highest level of education in it. One of the most resonant works after the debut Mère agitée was a novel about anti-Semitism in France.

“Titus didn’t like Berenice” is the sixth work of a talented writer, several lines harmoniously interwoven into the storyline: the love story of a modern woman and the biography of the outstanding French playwright Jean Racine, who worked in the era of Louis XIV. In the rasinovskoy "Berenice" described the love of the monarch, which ended in nothing because of the fatal difference in position. The modern heroine is hard going through the betrayal of her beloved and through the prism of her own sufferings she perceives in a special way the performance based on the play by Racin.

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