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The Goncourt Prize means huge sales

The Goncourt Prize is only ten euros, but it usually means a huge economic win. If everything follows the pattern, this year's recipient of France's finest literary prize, Kamel Daoud, can expect to sell 577,000 copies of the now prize-winning novel "Houris" this year alone.

The Goncourt Prize means huge sales

Anti-Semitism - "Something You Can't Vaccinate Away"

Fiction keeps the wounds of the Holocaust open. In a new book, Daniel Pedersen argues that fiction literature is a path to invaluable knowledge about the Nazi concentration camps and what they did to human beings.

Anti-Semitism - "Something You Can't Vaccinate Away"