Brigitte Giraud becomes 13th woman to win Prix Goncourt | Books
For only the 13th time in 120 years, France’s oldest and most celebrated literary award the Prix Goncourt was won by a woman on Thursday.Brigitte Giraud, 56, a French writer of novels and short stories was declared winner with Vivre Vite (Live Fast) after the jury voted 14 times.After a final vote ended in stalemate, the president of the Goncourt Academy cast a deciding vote, choosing Giraud over her closest rival Giuliano da Empoli.Vivre Vite is a short autobiographical story in which Giraud recounts the chain of events…