Biggest success of the season, Dear asshole was not selected by the jurors for the prestigious literary prize.
The Prix Goncourt excluded from its first selection the novel by Virginie Despentes, Dear assholethe biggest success of the literary season, announced the jury on Tuesday.
The 12 members of the Académie Goncourt have selected 15 titles, some expected as The Clandestine Life by Monica Sabolo or The heart does not give in by Grégoire Bouillier, and other surprising ones, such as Beirut-sur-Seine by Sabyl Ghoussoub or Le Mage du Kremlin de Giuliano from Empoli.
65,000 copies sold
Virginie Despentes is the star of this literary season, driven by very favorable reviews, and sales which have reached some 65,000 copies. Winner of the Renaudot prize in 2010, for apocalypse babyshe was a juror of Goncourt for four years, before resigning in January 2020 to devote herself to writing.
Its publisher, Grasset, places no title in this first selection, while its rival Gallimard has three, and Flammarion and Stock two each.
The Goncourt, the most prestigious of French literary prizes, is to be awarded on November 3.
The first selection
- Muriel Barbery, An hour of fervor (South Acts)
- Gregory Bouillier, The heart does not give in (Flammarion)
- Nathan Devers, Artificial Links (Albin Michel)
- Giuliano from Empoli, The Mage of the Kremlin (Gallimard)
- Carole Fives, something to tell you (Gallimard)
- Sabyl Ghoussoub, Beirut-sur-Seine (Stock)
- Brigitte Giraud, live fast (Flammarion)
- Sarah Jollien-Fardel, His favorite (Sabine Wespieser)
- Cloe Korman, Almost sisters (Threshold)
- Makenzy Orcel, A human sum (Shores)
- Yves Ravey, Taormine (Midnight)
- Pascale Robert-Diard, The Little Liar (The Iconoclast)
- Emmanuel Ruben, The Mediterranean (Stock)
- Monica Sabolo, The Clandestine Life (Gallimard)
- Anne Serre, Our dear old lady author (Mercury from France)