Created in 1983 by the Department, the Louis-Guilloux Prize rewards each year a literary work chosen by a citizen jury made up of readers who frequent the department’s libraries and networks.
The citizens’ jury will choose the winner from among the ten works selected by a committee made up of eight members from the book industry in Brittany.
The winners of the prize are intended to come and meet the public, college students and readers of the department’s libraries, who can thus benefit from the arrival of nationally renowned authors in their establishments.
underlines Sandrine Trébouta, the head of the library.
The committee selected ten books from, like every year, the French-speaking winter literary season.
The ten novels in the running for the prize are: The fisherman’s dreamby Hemley Boom; Dolores or the belly of dogs, by Alexandre Civico; From the same wood, by Marion Fayolle; Break sugar with a pickaxe by Eric Louis; The waters of the Danube, by Jean Mattern; Odette Froyard in three ways, by Isabelle Monnin; A life that rears up, by Sylvain Pattieu; Riding the wind, by Patrick Pécherot; Toscaby Murielle Szac and white, by Claire Vesin.
To participate in the vote until September, readers must be registered at the municipal library. The result of the citizen jury’s vote will be revealed in October.
concludes Sandrine Trébouta.
