Simple

In her novel Simpel (2007), which is aimed at young adults, Marie-Aude Murail reveals just how complicated life can be for a teenager desperate to protect his older, mentally retarded brother from a life in a home. For her sensitive and amusing description of a “simple” boy who never goes anywhere without his cuddly toy “Monsieur Hasehase”, Murail won the 2008 German Children’s Literature Award.