discover the selections for the Medici, December and Goncourt prizes…

The juries make public the lists of books that caught their attention during this literary season. The selections will be refined during the fall. Latest publication: the lists of finalists for the Medici Prize, Wednesday October 9.

Lhe literary prize season has launched. The 2023 vintage was marked by great texts by female writers (Neige Sinno, Laure Murat, Maria Pourchet, etc.) and some cautious choices. The lists of authors will first multiply before being refined during the fall to designate only a handful of winners. An update on the books that caught the attention.

December Price

The winner will be known on October 29.

Aurélien Bellanger, The Last Days of the Socialist Party (Threshold)
Julia Deck, Ann of England (Threshold)
Abdellah Taia, The Bastion of Tears (Julliard)

Goncourt Prize

The Goncourt academy unveiled Tuesday 1^is October its second selection, after the initial one of sixteen novels published on September 3. On October 22 there will be only four left, then the winner will be known on November 4.

Sandrine Collette, Madelaine before dawn (JC Lattes)
Kamel Daoud, Houris (Gallimard)
Gail Faye, Jacaranda (Grasset)
Hélène Gaudy, Archipelagos (The Olivier)
Philippe Jaenada, Casualness is a beautiful thing (Mialet-Barrault)
Maylis de Kerangal, Surf day (Vertical)
Jean-Noël Orengo, “You are the Führer’s unhappy love” (Grasset)
Abdellah Taia, The Bastion of Tears (Julliard)

Prix Femina

It will be awarded by a jury composed of women on November 5. The second selections were revealed on Tuesday 1^is October, before the thirds on October 22.

Pierre Adrian, Hotel Roma (Gallimard)
Emma Becker, Pretty Evil (Albin Michel)
Christophe Bigot, Another one is waiting for me elsewhere (La Martinière)
Miguel Bonnefoy, The Jaguar’s Dream (Shore)
Doan Bui, The Land of Nowhere (Grasset)
Antoine Choplin, Masao’s Boat (Buchet Chastel)
Julia Deck, Ann of England (Threshold)
Gail Faye, Jacaranda (Grasset)
Hélène Gaudy, Archipelagos (Editions de l’Olivier)
Benjamin de Laforcade, Berlin for them (Gallimard)

Foreign novels

Alaa The Aswany, In the evening of Alexandria (South Acts)
Richard Flanagan, Question 7 (South Acts)
Anna Funder, L’Invisible Madame Orwell (Héloïse d’Ormesson)
Nathan Hill, Well-being (Gallimard)
Benjamin Labatut, Maniac (Grasset)
Marco Lodoli, So little (P.O.L)
Anne Michaels, Hugs (Basement)
Elizabeth O’Connor, On the island (JC Lattes)
Colm Tóibín, Long Island (Grasset)
Alia Trabucco Zerán, Own (Robert Laffont)

Renaudot Prize

They will be awarded on November 4, just after the Goncourt Prize. The second selections were revealed on October 4, before the third on October 24.

For novels
Elisabeth Barillé, The Sisters and other living species (Arléa)
Grégoire Bouillier, Orangerie Syndrome (Flammarion)
Antoine Choplin, Masao’s Boat (Buchet Chastel)
Kamel Daoud, Houris (Gallimard)
Gail Faye, Jacaranda (Grasset)
Philippe Jaenada, Casualness is a very beautiful thing (Mialet/Barrault)
Patrice Jean, The Life of Specters (Cherche-Midi)
Karim Kattan, Eden at dawn (Elyzad)
Olivier Norek, Winter Warriors (Michel Lafon)
Isabelle Sorento, Medusa (JC Lattes)

For testing

Valérie Abécassis, Hostages Square (Cerf)
Pierre Adrian, Hotel Roma (Gallimard)
Ananda Devi, Night adds to night (Stock)
Maïa Hruska, Ten Versions of Kafka (Grasset)
Sébastien Lapaque, Checkmate in paradise (South Acts)
François-Guillaume Lorrain, We had to help them (Flammarion)

Medici Prize

It will be awarded on November 6, 2024.

French novels

Miguel Bonnefoy, The Jaguar’s Dream (Shore)
Thomas Clerc, Paris, museum of the 21st century(Midnight)
Julia Deck, Ann of England (Threshold)
Shane Haddad, Love Gil (POL)
Emmanuelle Lambert, No respect (Stock)
Abdellah Taia, The Bastion of Tears (Julliard)
Felicia Viti, The vertical girl (Gallimard)
Cécile Wajsbrot, Full sky (The Sound of Time)
Gabriella Zalapi, Ilaria (Zoe)

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 Zerán, Owntranslated from Spanish (Chile) by Anne Plantagenet (Robert Laffont)
Mermaid in 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)

Trials

Justine Augier, Legal entity (South Acts)
Eliane Brum, Banzeiro Okoto Amazon center of the world (Basement Editions)
Deborah Costes, Take back body (Globe)
Grégory Delaplace, The voice of ghosts (Threshold)
Martine Delvaux, It could have been a movie (Éditions Héliotrope)
Yann Diener, Freud’s Jaw (The Surveyor)
Anna Funder, L’Invisible Madame Orwelltranslated from English (Australia) by Carine Chichereau (Editions Héloïse d’Ormesson)
Maïa Hruska, Ten versions of Kafka (Grasset)
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 Chekhov (La Fabrique editions)

Flora Prize

It will be awarded on November 7. Second selection: October 9.

Pierre Deram, Nights (Grasset)
Alice Develey, Fallen from the sky (The Iconoclast)
Roman Lafore, The confession (Flammarion)
Rebecca Lighieri, The Lost Children’s Club (POL)
Joy Majdalani, Jessica alone in a room (Grasset)
Jean-Pierre Montal, The North does it (Séguier)
Benjamin Stock, Marc (Rue Fromentin)
Daphne Tamage, The Return of Saturn (Stock)
Nagui Zinet, An exemplary trajectory (Joelle Losfeld)

Grand prize for the novel of the French Academy

It will be awarded on October 24. Second selection: October 10.

Abigail Assor, David’s Night (Gallimard)
Miguel Bonnefoy, The Jaguar’s Dream (Shore)
Grégory Cingal, Last on the list (Grasset)
Kamel Daoud, Houris (Gallimard)
Gail Faye, Jacaranda (Grasset)
Delphine Minoui, Badjens (Threshold)
Thibault de Montaigu, Heart (Albin Michel)
Jean-Noël Orengo, You are the Führer’s unhappy love (Grasset)
Abel Quentin, Hut (Éditions de l’Observatoire)
Abdellah Taia, The Bastion of Tears (Julliard)

Goncourt Prize for high school students

It will be awarded on November 28, 2024.