US author Dungo wins France’s tip striking novel prize
US author Dungo wins France’s tip striking novel prize
PARIS: The American author AJ Dungo won one of France’s tip striking novel prizes Wednesday for his heart-breaking story of love, detriment and surfing, “In Waves”.
Dungo’s acclaimed story is on one turn a laterally story of surfing’s Hawaiian pioneers and how a Malibu call supplement Tom Blake revolutionised house design.
But it was a absolute together account of Dungo´s possess comfortless adore for his late partner Kristen Tuason, a associate roller left-wing who died of bone cancer, that changed a judges of a BD Fnac/France Inter prize.
Tuason helped a Florida-born illustrator, who lives in Los Angeles, overcome his fear of a sea before her genocide aged 25 in 2016.
“In Waves”, 27-year-old Dungo´s initial book, has been compared to William Finnegan´s pondering Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, “Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life”.
Drawn in steely nautical greeny-blue, critics hailed it as “moving and fascinating” in a approach it interweaves a good heroes of surfing with a author´s devotion of his girlfriend.
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