Emmanuel Carrère's Chronicle Takes All

The chronicle is not only very much alive and well and living in France, its is beating all comers. Limonov, Emmanuel Carrère's chronicle which had already won the Renaudot prize, has proven the form's potential by beating even prize-winning novels to the Prix des prix littéraires -- the prize awarded to the best of the year's award-winning literary works.

Carrère Chronicle Wins Prize

The aforementioned Emmanuel Carrère has won the sales-boosting Renaudot prize with his latest chonicle, which is about the Russian activist Limonov.