Gaël Faye, Kamel Daoud and Olivier Norek are part of the first selection of novels for the Prix Renaudot unveiled on Thursday 4 September, after having also been in the Prix Goncourt selection. They are respectively signing up for this literary rentrée Jacaranda, Houris et The Winter Warriors. This first selection includes 18 novels, only three of which are written by women. One of them, Hemley Boum, stands out because it was published not at this literary rentrée, but in January.
The “essays” selection includes 11 titles, some of which are stories, including one illustrated, that of Frédéric Pajak on Nietzsche and music. Among the novels, those of Étienne Kern, Philippe Jaenada and Thibault de Montaigu were also selected by the first 16 titles in the running for the Goncourt.
The Renaudot Prize is to be awarded on November 4, at the Drouant restaurant in Paris, just after the Goncourt, as tradition dictates. Before that, a second selection is scheduled for October 3, then a third on October 24.
The jury kept the same 10 members as in 2023, including the 2008 Nobel Prize winner, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, and Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud as secretary general.
First selection of novels:
– Elisabeth Barillé, The Sisters and other species of the livingt (Arléa)
– Miguel Bonnefoy, The Jaguar’s Dream (Shorelines)
– Gregory Bouillier, The Orangery Syndrome (Flammarion)
– Hemley Boum, The Fisherman’s Dream (Gallimard)
– Antoine Choplin, Maseo’s Boat (Buchet Chastel)
– Kamel Daoud, Houris (Gallimard)
– Gail Faye, Jacaranda (Grasset)
– Hubert Haddad, The Atlantic Symphony (cruelty)
– Philippe Jaenada, Casualness is a beautiful thing. (Mialet-Barrault)
– Patrice Jean, The Life of Ghosts (Cherche-Midi)
– Karim Kattan, Eden at dawn (Elyzad)
– Etienne Kern, The Better Life (Gallimard)
– Benjamin de Laforcade, Berlin for them (Gallimard)
– Thibault of Montaigu, Coeur (Albin Michel)
-Olivier Norek, The Winter Warriors (Michel Lafon)
– Jean-Noël Orengo, You are the Führer’s unhappy love (Grasset)
– Abel Quentin, Hut (The Observatory)
– Isabelle Sorento, Medusa (JCLattès)
First selection of tests:
– Pierre Adrian, Hotel Roma (Gallimard)
– Christophe Bigot, Another one is waiting for me elsewhere (La Martiniere)
– Pierre Ducrozet, Self-portrait without me (Mercury of France)
– Théo Delincak, My fall will be my momentum (Leduc/Wagram)
– Ananda Devi, Night adds to night (Stock)
– Maïa Hruska, Ten versions of Kafka (Grasset)
– Sebastien Lapaque, Checkmate in Paradise (Actes Sud)
– Blanche Leridon, My Sisters’ Castle (Peregrines)
– François-Guillaume Lorrain, They had to be helpedr (Flammarion)
– Frédéric Pajak, Nietzsche at the piano (Black on white)
– Dorcy Rugamba, Hewa Rwanda, letters to the absent (JC Lattes)
