by Frida Nilsson · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782747038362
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«Ma mère est un gorille, et alors?» is a children's novel by Frida Nilsson, published by Bayard Jeunesse in paperback in 2011 (233 pages, in French).
Jonna lives in the Mimosas orphanage, where the headmistress, obsessed with cleanliness, oversees adoptions. The girl dreams of elegant, conventional parents, but one day a battered car arrives and an enormous gorilla gets out; against all odds, the unexpected visitor chooses her.
Work originally published in Swedish as Apstjärnan; French translation by Ludivine Verbèke. Nominated for the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2011 (Kinderbuch).
For children and young readers looking for tender and zany stories about prejudice and adoption.
Frida Nilsson is a Swedish children’s writer whose first book was published in 2004. She has won numerous international shortlistings and prizes, including the August Prize, the German Youth Literature Prize, Expressens Heffaklump (2015) and the Astrid Lindgren Prize. She was recently chosen as one of the best emerging writers in Europe under 39. Nilsson’s writing is characterised by playfulness and sincerity. She has been compared to Roald Dahl and Barbro Lindgren.
