2024-09-03 12:55:53
Writers Gaël Faye and Kamel Daoud appeared in the first selection of the Goncourt prize, presented on Tuesday, September 3. The prestigious prize will be awarded on November 4.
The first selection of novels from the Prize Goncourt presented on Tuesday, with 16 titles, including Gaël Faye and Kamel Daoud, among the stars of this literary season.
These two titles are among the most sampled, one is the second novel from an author known for best selling. A small country in 2016, the other having narrow Goncourt 2014 for Meursault, counter-research.
Surprises are the rise in the list of the former writer of detective novels, Olivier Norek, who talks this time about the Russo-Finnish war of 1940, and whose book that does not look like a novel, by Thomas Clerc, travels widely. north of Paris.
Issued on November 4
The most famous French literary prize is to be awarded on November 4, at the Drouant restaurant in Paris, as tradition says.
Before that, the second selection is scheduled for October 1, then the names of the four candidates will be revealed on October 22.
Goncourt 2024 keeps the same judges as in 2023, but has changed the President. Philippe Claudel was appointed to this position in June, succeeding Didier Decoin, while Camille Laurens became secretary general.
In June, the Academie Goncourt even pushed back its age limit by five years, to 85, to allow all its members to be judges.
The 16 selected titles are also in competition for the Goncourt prize for high school students, awarded on November 28, and the Goncourt prize for prisoners, awarded on December 17.
First option:
Ruben Barrouk, All the noise Guéliz (Albin Michel)
Thomas Clerk, Paris museum of the 21st century: eighteenth arrondissement (Midnight)
Sandrine Colette, Madelaine before dawn (JC Lattes)
Kamel Daoud, Hour (Gallimard)
Gail Faye, Jacaranda (grass field)
Hélène Gaudy, Archipelagos (the Olivier)
Philippe Jaenada, Grief is a beautiful thing (Mialet-Barrault)
Maylis reached Kerangal Surfing day (Vertical)
Etienne Kern, A better life (Gallimard)
Emmanuelle Lambert, There is no respect (Product)
Rebecca Lighieri, The Lost Children’s Club (POL)
Carol Martinez, Sleep your worst (Gallimard)
Thibault de Montaigu, Conscience (Albin Michel)
Olivier Norek, Winter Warriors (Michel Lafon)
Jean-Noël Orengo, You are the Führer’s unhappy love (grass field)
Abdellah Taia, The Bastion of Tears (julliard)
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