Talk will be moderated by Salma Kojok, writer and president of the Jury du Choix Goncourt de l’Orient.

Within the framework of the month of Francophonie, the AUF Middle East in partnership with the Goncourt Academy and the French Institute of Egypt are organizing a literary talk with Nathan Devers, winner of the Prix Goncourt de l’Orient 2022, for his novel “The artificial links”.
This talk with the author is an opportunity for the French-speaking public to discuss his work, his news and his career as a writer.
The novel begins with the suicide attempt of Julien Libérat who, under a heavy downpour, throws himself out of the window while filming himself on social networks. Flashback: Julien is a piano teacher who leaves Paris, after separating from his partner, to live in the suburbs without much activity. He then discovers online a “mirror” world, the Antimonde, of diabolical precision, where everything is possible: a second chance to become what he would have dreamed of being… This winning novel of the Goncourt Choice of the Orient 2022 was acclaimed by a jury made up of students from the Middle East region.
Nathan Devers is 24 years old. A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure and agrégé in philosophy, he has published Genealogy of Religion (Le Cerf, 2019), Heaven and Earth (Flammarion, 2020, Edmée de La Rochefoucauld Prize) and Espace Smoking (Grasset, 2021). With Les Liens artificials published by Albin Michel editions, he signs his second novel, which is part of the selection of the Prix Goncourt 2022 and obtains the Student Prize Choice Goncourt of the Orient.