by Gilles Leroy · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782715234055
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«Nina Simone, roman» is the biographical novel by Gilles Leroy, published by Mercure de France in paperback (269 pages, in French).
The work reconstructs how Eunice Kathleen Waymon, a Black girl born in 1933 in Tryon (North Carolina), became Nina Simone, the artist with a unique voice and unforgettable piano. Between the real and the fictionalized, it portrays a singer adored worldwide and, at the same time, profoundly alone.
The novel was published in 2013 and is part of Gilles Leroy's American trilogy, alongside «Alabama Song» and «Zola Jackson».
Gilles Leroy is a French writer. He studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, which appears in his 1996 novel Les Maîtres du monde as the "Lycée Ducasse". His novel Alabama song won the Prix Goncourt in 2007.
