“Jacaranda” by Gaël Faye, “Houris” by Kamel Daoud and “Winter Warriors” by Olivier Norek are the first choice.

2024-09-05 17:00:47

Around thirty works, novels and essays, are part of the first selection announced on September 4.

France Télévisions – Editorial Culture

Published on 09/05/2024 7:00.

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Back to school reading 2024 at Guillaume bookstore, general bookstore in Caen (Calvados) Wednesday August 21, 2024. (MATHIS HARPHAM / OUEST-FRANCE / MAXPPP)

Gaël Faye, Kamel Daoud and Olivier Norek are part of the first selection of novels for the Renaudot prize revealed on Wednesday September 4, after they were also in the Goncourt prize. They signed a series for this literary return Jacaranda, Hour etc The Winter Warriors. This first selection includes 18 novels, including only three written by women. One of them, that of Hemley Boum, stands out apparently not at the time of this writing, but in January.

The “essays” selection includes 11 titles, some of which are stories, including one illustrated, by Frédéric Pajak on Nietzsche and music. Among the novels, those by Étienne Kern, Philippe Jaenada and Thibault de Montaigu were also selected by the first 16 titles in the run for Goncourt.

Renaudot’s prize must be awarded on November 4, at Drouant’s restaurant in Paris, just after Goncourt, as tradition dictates. Before that, the second selection was scheduled for October 3, then the third on October 24.

The jury keeps the same 10 members as in 2023, with others the 2008 Nobel Prize winner, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, and Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud as secretary general.

First choice of novels:

Elisabeth Barile, She and other living speciest (Arléa)

– Miguel Bonnefoy, The Jaguar’s dream (Regional)

Grégoire Bouillier, Orangerie syndrome (Flammarion)

– Hemley Baum, A Fisherman’s Dream (Gallimard)

Antoine Choplin, Maseo’s boat (Buchet Chastel)

Kamel Daoud, Hour (Gallimard)

– Gail Faye, Jacaranda (grass field)

Hubert Haddad, The Atlantic Symphony (cruelty)

– Philippe Jaenada, Grief is a beautiful thing (Mialet-Barrault)

-Patrice Jean, Life Specters (Cherche-Midi)

Karim Kattan, Eden in the morning (Elyzad)

– Étienne Kern, A better life (Gallimard)

Benjamin de Laforcade, Berlin for them (Gallimard)

Thibault de Montaigu, Agbo (Albin Michel)

Olivier Norek, The Winter Warriors (Michel Lafon)

Jean-Noël Orengo, You are the Führer’s unhappy love (grass field)

– Abel Quentin, hut (The Observatory)

Isabelle Sorrento, Medusa (JCLatès)

First choice of essays:

-Pierre Adrian, Hotel Rome (Gallimard)

– Christophe Bigot, Another one is waiting for me somewhere else (La Martiniere)

– Pierre Ducrozet. Self portrait without me (Mercury of France)

Teo Delincak, My fall will be my influence (Leduc/Wagram)

– Ananda Devi, Night adds to night (Product)

-Maïa Hruska, Ten versions of Kafka (grass field)

– Sébastien Lapaque, Checkmate is paradise (Southern Services)

Blanche Leridon, My sister castle (Peregrines)

François-Guillaume Lorrain, They have to helpr (Flammarion)

-Frédéric Pajak, Nietzsche or piano (Black on white)

Dorcy Rugamba, Hewa Rwanda, letters to the absent (JC Lattes)