The 2024 Goncourt Prize was awarded Monday to the Franco-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud for his novel “Houris”. The Franco-Rwandan Gaël Faye receives the Renaudot prize for “Jacaranda”.
Chosen by the jury in the first round, “Houris”, published by Gallimard, rewards the work of Kamel Daoud on the “black decade” in Algeria, namely the civil war of the 90s in Algeria, but also the war of independence.
This book was preferred to three other books still in the running, “Madelaine avant l’aube” by Sandrine Colette, “Jacaranda” by Gael Faye and “Archipels” by Hélène Gaudy.
Renaudot for Gaël Faye
Often cited among the favorites for the Goncourt, Gaël Faye was awarded the Renaudot prize for his second novel “Jacaranda” on the reconstruction of Rwanda after the 1994 genocide.
While in the first “Petit pays”, the 2016 Goncourt prize for high school students and huge bookstore success, the author took the point of view of a boy who grew up in Burundi, this time the narrator grew up in France, in Versailles. , of a French father and a Rwandan mother.
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