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Vincent Delecroix

Born 1969 · France

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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    International Booker 2025 · Shortlist

    Small Boat

    Naufrage

    Vincent Delecroix · 54 when first published

    Novel · 122 pages · Migration, Politics

    Translated by Helen Stevenson

    AI-generated summary:In November 2021 a migrant boat sinks in the Channel after repeated calls for help go unanswered; the novel imagines the woman at the coastguard centre who took those calls.