The Goncourt Prize awarded to the writer Kamel Daoud

Franco-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud won the 2024 Goncourt Prize for his novel “Houris” which evokes recent historical events: the civil war of the “black decade” in Algeria and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

The Goncourt Prize, the first edition of which dates back to 1903, allows you to win a check for ten euros. But it promises its winner sales in the hundreds of thousands of copies.

Furthermore, the 2024 Renaudot prize was awarded to Gaël Faye for his novel “Jacaranda”.

Gaël Faye, who was one of the favorites for the Goncourt, was finally rewarded for his second novel “Jacaranda” on the reconstruction of Rwanda after the 1994 genocide.