This is Adelaide de Clermont-Tonnerre's second novel. Her first, Fourrure, won five literary prizes in France.
Le Dernier des Notres was the winner of both the Academie Francaise Grand Prix du Roman and the 2016 inaugural Filigranes prize, awarded to the book with the widest general appeal. It was on the longlist for the 2016 Renaudot prize, on the shortlist of four for the 2016 Landerneau prize, longlisted for the Prix de Flore.