The winners of the 2024 Goncourt Prize and the 2024 Renaudot Prize were announced Monday, November 4 at noon. These are respectively Kamel Daoud for his novel Houris, and Gaël Faye for Jacaranda.
As tradition dictates, the results of the two literature prizes were announced at lunchtime at the Drouant restaurant, in the Opera district of Paris. It is therefore Gaël Faye who wins the Renaudot 2024 prize for his book *Jacaranda* and Kamel Daoud, for Houris, wins the most prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt 2024 prize. The first was also in the running for the final du Goncourt, reports Le Figaro.
Houris and Jacaranda
It was precisely at 12:45 p.m. that Philippe Claudel du Goncourt announced the name of the winner at the top of the stairs leading to the ground floor of the Goncourt salon: “The 122nd Prix Goncourt was awarded in the first round, to Kamel Daoud for Houris at Gallimard.” Novel which deals with the fate of a survivor of the dark decade in Algeria.
For the Renaudot Prize, Gaël Faye's competitors were Sisters and Other Species of the Living by Élisabeth Barillé (Arléa), La barque de Masao by Antoine Choplin (Buchet Chastel), as well as the novel by Kamel Daoud. Author-composer, rapper and writer, Faye had already won a prize (the Goncourt des lycéens) in 2016 for her work Petit Pays.
published on November 4 at 1:45 p.m., Gabriel Gadré, 6Médias
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