Under the presidency of journalist and writer Jérôme Garcin, this 42e whirlwind edition records an attendance record. And made the Corrèze city the other capital of books and great authors. Reporting.
In Brive, it is at the end of the Fair that we count the… books sold. Sunday at 2:30 p.m., a few hours before the end of the Corrèze event, Kamel Daoud, brand new Prix Goncourt with Houris (Gallimard) stands shoulder to shoulder with the regional rider of the stage, Christian Signol. 900 novels each. A distinguished lady looks, behind her black quadrangular glasses, for the Gaël Faye stand. She imagined that the Prix Renaudot, 650 sales in three days, would be better off than at the end of the row, in the Grasset corner. Olivier Norek, Jean Giono Prize and Miguel Bonnefoy, Femina and French Academy Prize, complete the quinté with 470 and 420 copies sold, far ahead of their pursuers.
This 42e However, the edition had not started under the best auspices. If the “cholesterol train” which transports the literary world to the Cité Gaillarde every autumn has arrived safely, the SNCF has canceled connections this weekend, resulting in…
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