The jury for the 2024 Medici Prize revealed its second selection on Wednesday October 9. Composed of nine French-speaking novels (compared to 16 in the first selection) and nine foreign novels (compared to 14), it was accompanied by the unveiling of the selection of essays, which includes ten works.
The winners will be crowned on November 6, during an awards ceremony organized at the La Méditerranée restaurant in Paris.
The second selection of French-speaking novels
- Miguel Bonnefoy, The Jaguar’s DreamShores
- Thomas Clerc, Paris, museum of the 21st centuryMidnight
- Julia Deck, Ann of EnglandThreshold
- Shane Haddad, Love GilP.O.L
- Emmanuelle Lambert, No respectStock
- Abdellah Taïa, The Bastion of TearsJulliard
- Félicia Viti, The vertical girl, Gallimard
- Cécile Wajsbrot, Full skyThe Sound of Time
- Gabriella Zalapi, IlariaZoe
The second selection of foreign novels
- Mircea Cărtărescu, Théodorostranslated from Romanian by Laure Hinkel, Editions Noir sur blanc
- Amira Ghenim, The disaster of the house of notablestranslated from Arabic (Tunisia) by Souad Labbize, Philippe Rey
- Edward Halfon, Tarantulatranslated from Spanish (Guatemala) by David Fauquemberg, Quai Voltaire
- Benjamin Labatut, Maniactranslated from English (Chile) by David Fauquemberg, Grasset
- Marco Lodoli, So littletranslated from Italian by Louise Boudonnat, POL
- Alia Trabucco Zeran, Owntranslated from Spanish (Chile) by Anne Plantagenet, Robert Laffont
- Undinė Radzevičiūtė, The library of beauty and eviltranslated from Lithuanian by Margarita Barakauskaité-Le Borgne, Viviane Hamy
- Camila Sosa Villada, History of domesticationtranslated from Spanish (Argentina) by Laura Alcoba, Métailié
- Joseph Winkler, The fieldtranslated from German (Austria) by Bernard Banoun, Verdier
List of essays
- Justine Augier, Legal entitySouth Acts
- Eliane Brum, Banzeiro Okoto Amazon center of the worldBasement Editions
- Deborah Costes, Take back body, Globe
- Grégory Delaplace, The voice of ghostsThreshold
- Martine Delvaux, It could have been a movieÉditions Héliotrope
- Yann Diener, Freud’s JawThe Surveyor
- Anna Funder, L’Invisible Madame Orwelltranslated from English (Australia) by Carine Chichereau, Editions Héloïse d’Ormesson
- Maïa Hruska, Ten versions of KafkaGrasset
- Reiner Stach, Kafka (tome 3), The years of youth, translated from German by Régis Quatresous, Le Cherche Midi
- Jacques Rancière, Freedom in the distance. Essay on ChekhovLa Fabrique éditions
Chaired by Anne F. Garréta, the jury is made up this year of Marianne Alphant, Michel Braudeau, Marie Darrieussecq, Patrick Grainville, Dominique Fernandez, Andreï Makine, Pascale Roze et Alain Veinstein.
Last year, the distinction was awarded, on the French-speaking novel side, to the Quebecois Kevin Lambert pour May our joy remain, published in Nouvel Attila.
Two winners, Lydia Jorge pour Misericordia (Metalized) and Han Kang pour Impossible goodbyes (Grasset) were awarded the foreign novel prize.
The test price for its part came back to Laure Murat pour Proust, roman familial (Robert Laffont).
