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French author Marion Brunet has won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA), the world’s biggest international children’s and young adult literature prize. In a joint announcement LINK from Stockholm and the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, judges praised Brunet for her “shimmering and crystal-clear prose". Brunet has had only two titles translated into English – Vanda and Summer of Reckoning, both published by Bitter Lemon Press in Katherine Gregor’s translation. The latter title was shortlisted for the 2020 CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger.

What are the little things that are getting you through this extraordinary time?

I ride an exercise bike, dance, cook. I reread great sagas which allow me to escape the real world, I who defend the literature of the real (black, social) more often than that of the "imaginary-escape". I have skype drinks with a group of friends every evening at the same time. I make plans for a post-Corona world, differently than what I would have done without this epidemic and its consequences. I believe that we will have to change things in-depth, and that we will come out different (and that it is desirable).