Brigitte Giraud occupation novelist
Brigitte Giraud (born 1960, Sidi-Bel-Abbès in Algeria) is a French writer, author of novels and short stories.Early life
Born in 1960, Brigitte Giraud grew up in Rillieux-la-Pape before settling in Lyon. She studied English, German and Arabic.Career
Giraud worked as a bookseller, translator and journalist. For her first book La chambre des parents (1997), she received the "Prix Littéraire des Étudiants" and for Nico the "Prix Lettres frontière Rhône-Alpes".
On 3 November 2022, she was awarded the 2022 Prix Goncourt for Vivre vite, a récit about the death of her husband Claude in 1999 at the age of 41. She is the thirteenth woman to receive the Goncourt since the prize's establishment in 1903. Giraud won after the jury underwent fourteen rounds of voting, the maximum amount permitted. The final vote ended in stalemate and, in accordance with the rules, the president of the Goncourt Academy cast a deciding vote, selecting Giraud over Giuliano da Empoli's novel Le mage du Kremlin.
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