2024-08-21 11:08:34
The 2024 academic year begins. Two authors have already been rewarded for their work.
Novelists Clémentine Mélois and Emma Becker won the first prizes awarded during the 2024 literary season, the judges announced on Wednesday.
The prize awarded the fastest since 2022 has been the Méduse prize, which this year goes to Clémentine Mélois for So it’s good (Published by L’Arbalète).
The jury made its decision on August 1, three weeks before this story was released in bookstores.
Clémentine Mélois is also an artist known for her humorous photo montages which transform the covers of literary classics.
So it’s good honoring a father who spread this creative fantasy to him, the poet Bernard Mélois, by describing his last years and funeral.
Prostitution love story
Traditionally following the awards of Writers is the festival of Gonzague Saint Bris (formerly La Forêt des Livres), given in the last weekend of August in Chanceaux-près-Loches, in Touraine.
The back-to-school award goes to Emma Becker for Bad bean (Albin Michel publications), an adulterous love story with another author.
This event will award other prizes, including a display prize for Alice Develey, as well Fell from heaven (The Iconoclast), a self-help novel about anorexia, or the first novel award for Ruben Barrouk as well All the noise Guéliz (Albin Michel), about the life of an ancient resident of Marrakech.
The most prestigious awards, including the Goncourt, are awarded in late October and early November.
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