She is currently touring in Germany. But will nonetheless be at Strasbourg City Hall this Friday evening to receive the Marcel Rudloff Tolerance Prize, awarded by the Friends of Marcel Rudloff association, in the presence of Jeanne Barseghian, mayor of the capital. Alsatian.
She recalled it in her last book, The land of others (Gallimard), published in 2020: Alsace has a special resonance for Leila Slimani. Her maternal grandmother was from the Mulhouse region and had married a Moroccan veteran whom she had followed, the war over, to her country.
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Among seven candidates
For Francis Hirn, president of the Friends of Marcel Rudloff, “his often courageous commitments in favor of all freedoms, his call for respect for differences, for openness to others”, largely justified the choice of Leila Slimani, among seven candidates selected for the association’s short list. “His double Franco-Moroccan culture, with the small dose of Alsace that we know him, also participates in this humanism to which the Marcel Rudloff Tolerance Prize is attached”, he summarizes.
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