Four novels, those by Delphine Minoui, Thibault de Montaigu, Olivier Norek and Abel Quentin, are finalists for the 2024 Interallié prize, the jury announced Thursday.
This prize, whose jury is exclusively male and which often but not only rewards journalists, must be awarded on November 13.
Delphine Minoui, with “Badjens” (editions du Seuil), writes a fiction about the fight of Iranian women not to permanently wear the Islamic veil.
Thibault de Montaigu, in “Cœur” (published by Albin Michel), an autobiographical novel, explores his genealogy, and among other things the fate of an ancestor who attacked on horseback in 1914.
Olivier Norek devotes “The Winter Warriors” (Michel Lafon editions) to the war between Finland and the Soviet Union in 1939-1940, and in particular to a soldier particularly gifted with a rifle.
Finally, Abel Quentin, throughout “Cabane” (The Observatory), imagines the journey of the authors of a report, half a century ago, which describes the coming collapse of the planet’s ecosystems, without causing of awareness.
Olivier Norek is the only finalist to have already won a prize in this literary season, the Giono prize on Thursday.
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