A French author, Neige Sinno has won numerous prizes with her book 3″triste tigre” which has sold 90,000 copies in France, but who is this author ?

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She won five awards

With her second novel, the French author Neige Sinno electrified the juries : “Triste Tigre” appeared in 13 back-to-school selections, and won five awards. A plebiscite for the author who began in May 2007 with a collection of short stories, La vie des rats (La Tangente), before publishing Le Camion eleven years later, with Christophe Lucquin Éditeur — today unobtainable. Taking stock of the accounts, this story will have lined up in 2023 the World Literary Prize, the Goncourt Prize for High School Students, the Blù Jean-Marc Roberts Prize, the Les Inrocks Prize for French novels and the 2023 Femina Prize. A harvest which today bears the book with nearly 90,000 copies according to Edistat.

Emotional shock

We do not come out of reading “Triste Tigre” unscathed. Emotional shock, literary shock, moral shock… all caused by reading an extraordinary book that cannot be “labeled” according to the usual genres (autofiction or non-fiction)… Born in 1977 in the Hautes-Alpes, where she spent her adolescence, Neige Sinno, who now lives in Mexico, devoted her doctoral thesis to English-speaking literature. She subsequently published two fictions, which went unnoticed. To those who think that literature can save victims of abuse, she replies that it is rather “a form of consolation”. By saying “I”, Neige Sinno speaks for “an army of shadows”, thousands of people who, until now, have been silent and whom this award has brought to light.

Impossible to put down her story

Abused during childhood by her stepfather, Neige Sinno bears witness to a nightmare whose shockwave continues. An unusual story, a moving quest for truth. She speaks with force and sharpness from her own journey and her painful experience, while asking a thousand questions. She questions herself while questioning the vile father-in-law, this “Sad Tiger” who gives the title to her quest for truth – borrowed from the poem Songs of Innocence and Experience, by William Blake ( 1789). But the author, an intellectual who is not part of the inner circle, has a way of drilling into the subject matter with unequaled power, calling the reader to witness. Impossible to put down her story.