Published on October 4, 2024 at 10:53 a.m.
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Gaël Faye, Kamel Daoud and Olivier Norek are part of the second selection of novels for the Renaudot Prize unveiled this Thursday, October 3.
This selection includes ten novels, only two of which are written by women. The selection of “essays” was reduced to six titles, including Valérie Abécassis’ account of the Hamas assault on Israel on October 7, 2023, which was not in the first. The rules of the prize allow you to include new titles at any time.
The Renaudot prize must be awarded on November 4, at the Drouant restaurant in Paris, just after Goncourt, as tradition dictates. Before that, a third selection is scheduled for October 24.
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The 10 novels and 6 essays in the running for the prize
The jury for the prestigious literary prize is made up of: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, Jean-Noël Pancrazi, Stéphanie Janicot, Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, Dominique Bona, Patrick Besson, Cécile Guilbert, Mohammed Aïssaoui and Frédéric Beigbeder.
In 2023, the Renaudot Prize was awarded to “Insolents” by Ann Scott (Calmann-Lévy) in the novel category. And to “De Gaulle, a life: the man of nobody” by Jean-Luc Barré (Grasset) in the essay category.
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