Friday August 8, 2025, Bérénice Pichat, author of the novel The little goodreceived her award as a 2025 winner of the “Au hollow des Mot” competition. She could not make herself available in June, when promulgating the results. This distinction is widely deserved for a novel that has seduced readers of our network, like many readers in France
said Patricia Louedec, managers of development public reading, during a meeting at the Librairie Salon de tea, books-in-room, in Saint-Pol-de-Léon (Finistère).
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The festival meets success
Faced with the success of the “Au Housing des Voins” festival in 2024, the Haut Léon Community media libraries launched a second edition in January 2025. Jacques Edern, president of Haut Léon Community, revealed it: This second edition was marked by a formidable enthusiasm with 117 voters and 725 loans made, an increase of almost 38 % compared to 2024. And what about meetings that were full and were the occasion for very beautiful exchanges with the authors.
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« Patchwork et frigo »
Professor of schools in Le Havre, passionate about history, and haloed by an “price which has an intense meaning because awarded by readers and not a professional jury” The author exchanged on her novel. What are his writing principles? His answer challenges: patchwork et frigo ».
She then delivers the explanations: Small, I recovered pieces of fabrics to create sewn works. For writing, I grab things in books, films, meetings, in objects to create something. On a daily basis, I prepare the meal with what I find in my fridge, for different dishes from one time to the other.
The little good is a character somewhat born of a puzzle. While the other characters are identified by a first name, the heroine is described in relation to her function.
For this novel, I was inspired by Online by Joseph Ponthus. We are no longer the same before and after reading this book. I took up the idea of a rhythm where the bottom and the form have the same equivalence.