A Canadian writer who is among the 16 finalists for the Goncourt Prize - the most prestigious distinction awarded to a work written in the French language - generated a stir among figures of French culture after admitting on social networks that he had called for a "sensitive reader " to verify that his latest novel, "May our joy remain", does not contain expressions or characters that could be offensive to readers belonging to any minority.   When at the beginning of the month the members of the jury of the most prestigious of the French literature awards selected the novel "May our joy remain" for the first list of finalists for the award, they were surely unaware of what was coming: the Canadian author claims the use of "sensitivity readers", a practice that abounds in the United States and Canada, but which in France raises misgivings and suspicions of censorship and "Americanization" of native culture.   The Canadian author claims the use of "sensitivity readers", a practice that abounds in the United States and Canada, but which in France raises misgivings and suspicions of censorship and "Americanization" of native culture.     While in the United States or Great Britain the figure of the sensitive reader is so normalized that many of those who play this role openly admit that they work for publishers, in France its admission was not even under discussion, until now. That is why the confession of the writer Kevin Lambert, a native of the Canadian city of Quebec, was so loud, who found himself involved in a controversy after explaining, in an Instagram publication, that he had summoned a “sensitive reader” to deactivate any noise. that your new book could provoke in the community of readers.