Goncourt for Kamel Daoud, Renaudot for Gaël Faye

The Goncourt Prize was awarded Monday to the Franco-Algerian novelist Kamel Daoud for his novel “Houris” (ed. Gallimard), about “the black decade” in Algeria.

He was chosen by the jury in the first round, collecting six votes, against two for Hélène Gaudy, one for Gaël Faye, winner of the Renaudot, and one for Sandrine Collette, announced the president of the Académie Goncourt, the writer Philippe Claudel.

The novelist Gaël Faye, who was one of the favorites for the Goncourt, was, for his part, awarded the Renaudot prize on Monday 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.