the four finalists are announced

One of them will necessarily succeed Gaspard Koenig, 2023 winner for “Humus”.

The third and final selection for the Interallié prize fell on Thursday November 7, the day when the Flore prize was also awarded. From eight novels in the second selection, we now have four. The jurors chose to dismiss “Houris” (Gallimard) by Kamel Daoud, who should console himself with his Goncourt prize, or “Hotel Roma” (Gallimard) by Pierre Adrian, which retraces the last days of Cesare Pavese, before that he killed himself in room 49 of the Hotel Roma. Our comrade François Armanet, who was for a long time head of the Ideas section at “New Obs”, was also not selected for his memories of the profession in “You know what? » (The Round Table).

Still in the running, the popular thriller author Olivier Norek, surprise guest of the literary prize season, with his “Winter Warriors” (Michel Lafon), who looks back on the “Winter War” which opposed the Finland to the USSR at the start of World War II. But also the noted “Cabane” (The Observatory) by Abel Quentin, around the authors of the famous Meadows report, on the limits to growth published in 1972. Let us note in passing that the 100% testosterone jury only maintained that a woman in her last square.

To find out who will succeed Gaspard Koenig and win this prize which traditionally rewards a journalist-writer (which Koenig was not), we will have to wait until November 13, at the Lasserre restaurant in Paris.

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The 4 novels in the running for the 2024 Interallié prize

• « Badjens »by Delphine Minoui (Seuil)
• ” Heart »by Thibault de Montaigu (Albin Michel)
• “The Winter Warriors »by Olivier Norek (Michel Lafon)
• ” Hut »by Abel Quentin (L’Observatoire)

Please note: The latest news is that the jury is made up of Jean-Marie Rouart, Stéphane Denis, Gilles Martin-Chauffier, Eric Neuhoff, Christophe Ono-dit-Biot, Jean-Christophe Rufin, Jean-René Van der Plaetsen and Florian Zeller.

Note again: most of these books have been, or will soon be reviewed, in the literary pages of “New Obs” and on BibliObs. And the latest news from the literary prizes can be found here.