LE MUSÉE DES CONTRADICTIONS by Antoine Wauters (Editions du Sous-Sol) is the Winner of the Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle 2022: his twelve beautiful but enraged short stories are « an address to the readers that intensifies the poetry, a way to reappropriate the discourse using the form of the short story. »
WINTER IN SOKCHO by Elisa Shua Dusapin (Open Letter, tr. Aneesa Abbas Higgins) is the Winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature 2021: a « tender and mysterious novel » about the uneasy relationship between a French Korean receptionist and a French cartoonist who lands at the guesthouse she works in.
With a forthcoming movie adaptation by Koya Kamura, the novel has become a true literary phenomenon:
