November 4, 2009
Consul General of France, San Francisco (press release)
San Francisco author Dave Eggers wins prestigious French literary prize
San Franciscan author Dave Egger’s novel What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, has won the 2009 Prix Médicis for best foreign work of fiction, the Médicis jury announced Wednesday. A fictional reworking of a true story told to the author by the book’s hero, What Is the What describes the odyssey of a boy from his native village in Sudan, to a Kenyan refugee camp, and ultimately to Atlanta....
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