Australian novelist wins top French literary award An Australian writer, Lily Brett, on Tuesday won France's Prix Medicis literary award for best foreign book for "Lola Bensky", a novel drawing on her experience as a 1960s rock journalist and the daughter of Holocaust survivors. The winner of the Prix Medicis's main category, meanwhile, was French author Antoine Volodine, for "Terminus Radieux" ("Radiant Terminus"), set in Siberia in the aftermath of nuclear disaster. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES.