Goncourt

Alexis Jenni (Goncourt 2011) by Lionel Samain

How does a guy who won one of the most renowned literacy price in France for his very first published novel look like?

Jenni

Quite good mooded, actually, despite the stone freezing temperature that day.

Few days earlier, I could scout this background, close to Lyon's Station, in Paris. One of the coldest afternoon last winter. My finger got frozen and glued to the shutter button of the camera.