It is at the Drouant restaurant, between a lobster and a partridge pie that Camel Daoud et Gail Faye were respectively proclaimed winners of the Goncourt and Renaudot 2025 prizes. A few days later, the La Méditerranée restaurant for the Médicis prize, the Lasserre restaurant for the Interallié, the café de Flore (Flore prize) the Wepler brasserie (Wepler Fondation prize La Poste) in turn hosted the great annual literary prize festival.
Why are these awards given out in restaurants? Olivier Dionphotographer for Weekly Booksgoes behind the scenes of this meticulous organization where everything, from the preparation of the menu to the role of each waiter, is thought out in advance to perpetuate the tradition.
In the second part of the episode, Lauren Malka takes us to the largest independent bookstore in Île-de-France, the Millepages bookstore in Vincennes. She hands her microphone to the famous director of the establishment Pascal Thuot.
Tribute to Lebanon
Finally, to pay tribute to the Beirut Books festival, which did not take place this year, the deputy editor-in-chief of Weekly Books Alexandre Mouawad invites journalists Joseph Ghosn et Philippe Azoury to talk about their very strong attachment to Lebanon through the books, films, comics and novels that left their mark.
On the program: Growing up and becoming a poet in Lebanon d’Eat Adnan to Éditions de l’Échoppe; Beirut round trip of Fouad Elkoury by Cahiers du Cinéma; Beirut, April 13, 1975 of Marwan Chahine published by Belfond, The circular ruins d’Orianne Ciantar Olive by Dunes éditions; Backlit of Ghassan Salhab by De L'Incidence Éditeur; the documentary Diaries from Lebanon of Myriam El Hajj ; the comic strip Beirut despite everything of Sophie Guignon et Chloe With thatillustrated by Kamal Hakim published by Steinkis and the film Lebanon, in the chaos of Hospitals of Sylvain Lepetit et Chloe With that.
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