The second selection for the 2024 Marine Writers Literary Prize

The jurors for the 2024 Marine Writers Literary Prize have revealed their second selection, now comprising only eight back-to-school titles. This distinction rewards “a work of imagination seeking to reveal a part of the human condition” without devoting itself specifically to the sea. The winner will receive a grant of 10,000 euros from the MOB House in Saint-Ouen (95).

A final selection reduced to four titles will be announced on October 30 and the proclamation in mid-November. The winner will succeed the 2023 winner Antoine Senanque pour Ash Crosspublished by Grasset.

Second selection for the literary prize Writers navy

• These fierce soldiersof Joel Egloff (Buchet-Chastel)
• Checkmate in paradiseof Sébastien Lapaque (South Acts)
• The promise of the open sead’Arnaud de La Grange (Gallimard)
• Mesopotamiad’Olivier Guez (Grasset)
• Children of the seaof Virginia Tangvald (JC Lattes)
• Surf dayof Maylis of Kerangal (Vertical)
• Hourisof Camel Daoud (Gallimard)
• Saint-Nazaireof Patrick Deville (Threshold)