Literary prizes: it doesn't change the world, except that...

After a few months in bookstores, nearly 25,000 copies of The leaky woman (Leaf Merchant, 2015), by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, have found takers, a feat in Quebec, where 3,000 sales confer the status of bestseller. Then the writer won the 2016 Booksellers’ Prize. From then on, the awards and media appearances followed one another. To date, … Read more

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