Leila Slimani wins Goncourt, France's top literary prize

[WorldNews]

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Moroccan-born Leila Slimani won France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, on Thursday with a novel guaranteed to "scare the wits out of parents". The chilling tale of a "perfect" nanny who murders the two children she is looking after, "Chanson douce" (roughly translated as "Sweet Song") is based on the real-life story of a Dominican child-minder shortly to stand trial for the double murder of her charges in New York in 2012. The book -- which begins with the words "the baby is dead" -- is already a bestseller in France.

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