Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-06 | Page 3 | Prix Goncourt Given French-Canadian Writer

Prix Goncourt Given French-Canadian French W Writer ricer rAnts PAntS Dec 6 G AP The AP-The The much coveted Prix Pria doncourt Goncourt has be been n awarded ward d to Maurice W Weyer Y r Of or l France e for tOI hi his psychological psycho l logical novel nO A Man n Inclines Towards row His lUs Past d dealing with tIle tho Irish rind and Trench French In hi Canada Weyer who W was 8 a a. resident of Manitoba for tor tW twelve lVe y years are hunted farmed 1 and traV traveled lod widely In North America lIe He returned to l Trance France r at tho tIm outbreak out out- br break brok k of or the tho war f a. and aini d was W wounded three fifty times i In 1911 L Later lel ho he hobbled back Into the tank tonk service was WM wounded three times again and was in a hospital l Until 1920 when he returned to C Canada nada and found all his possessions gone presumably bly stolen Returning to France Fronce h he took U UW up W work rk as a a. proVIncial pro p M newspaper Cl man man