The most prestigious literary prize in France was awarded on November 4, 2024. Kamel Daoud, Gaël Faye, Hélène Gaudy and Sandrine Collette were the four finalists. It is the author of “Houris” who wins the prize in the first round with six votes.
The ten Goncourt jurors voted this Monday, November 4 to choose the winner of the most prestigious French literary prize, with Kamel Daoud and Gaël Faye as favorites to succeed Jean-Baptiste André and his work. Watch over her. In 2022, Brigitte Giraud was crowned for Live fast.
The final was played between these two writers, one who was a journalist and the other who is a singer, and two novelists who appear as outsiders, Sandrine Colette, and Hélène Gaudy. For more than a century, the decision has been made at lunchtime at the Drouant restaurant, in the Opera district of Paris.
Kamel Daoud big winner
The Goncourt Prize was awarded Monday to Franco-Algerian novelist Kamel Daoud for his novel “Houris” (ed. Gallimard), fiction about the massacres of the Algerian “black decade” (1992-2002), according to AFP. 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. Kamel Daoud says he thanks France, “it’s a country that protects writers”he declares.
The Goncourt Prize, the first edition of which dates back to 1903, allows you to win a check for ten euros, which everyone traditionally chooses to frame. But winning this very prestigious award promises its winner a special status and sales of hundreds of thousands of copies, and it opens the way to numerous translations throughout the world.
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