PORTRAIT – The author of Heart has just won the Interallié. This confirms his talent as a writer, already acclaimed at the time of the publication of La Grâce but also, for him, the feeling of finally being part of the Gallimard family, from which his mother descended.
“ By receiving the prix Interallié I think of the dark hallway, the green carpet on the second floor of my grandfather Claude Gallimard’s country house in Pressagny. I used to spend my life there as a teenager, at a time when I didn’t feel very good about myself. The entire “Folio” collection of the 1970s was there, from the very beginning. Books by Michel Déon, Félicien Marceau and Antoine Blondin all won the Interallié and fed my imagination. These people are like my original family. And receiving this prize is like becoming part of that family. It’s very moving for me. ” Thibault de Montaigu pauses and adds: “ Today, my thoughts are with my father, but also with Claude. (Claude Gallimard)Simone (Gallimard, her mother)Gaston Gallimard (his great-grandfather). I finally feel like part of this family. I feel become a writer. “
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