Victoire Sentenac wins Les Plumes Francophones with an independent novel
Nos blessures souterraines takes the eleventh edition of France’s competition devoted to self-published writing.
Victoire Sentenac has won the eleventh Les Plumes Francophones competition with Nos blessures souterraines, an independently published novel. Announced on 29 October, the result follows the 24 October ceremony in Paris during the Conférence des auteurs indépendants. The winner receives €10,000 and an audiobook adaptation by Audible, while each of the four other finalists was awarded a Kindle Scribe. Created to highlight French-language works distributed through Kindle Direct Publishing, the competition looks at fiction that often reaches readers without following a conventional publishing route. Sentenac’s victory does not erase the distance between self-publishing and the bookshop, but it shows how scouting, listening and editorial attention are creating new routes between independent writing and a wider reading public.