American · b. 1967
Jonathan Littell won the 2006 Prix Goncourt and the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française for "The Kindly Ones," a 900-page novel narrated by a fictional SS officer. The American author wrote in French, creating one of the most controversial and discussed books about the Holocaust. Littell's novel refuses moral comfort, forcing readers to inhabit a perpetrator's consciousness.