"The Bridge" Mailis de Kerangal
The novel “The Bridge” (Naissance d'un pont) by Mailis de Kerangal, published in 2010, was awarded the prestigious Medici literary prize for the originality of the concept, was shortlisted for the main literary award in France - the Goncourt Prize, as well as the Grand Prix Novel Prize of the French Academy and Flore. The first circulation of The Bridge, which sold out in France with lightning speed, amounted to 300,000 copies, followed by numerous reprints and translations into 26 languages.