Pfor their 81e edition, the Rossel prizes will reward a novelist and a comic strip author on Wednesday. The Victor Rossel Comics Academy Grand Prize will also crown an author for her entire career. A readers’ prize will complete the 2024 list. All the winners will be known at 1 p.m. They will receive their awards during an official ceremony at 7 p.m. in the premises of the Soir, 100 rue Royale. This year, Adeline Dieudonné is the honorary president of the literary jury. Bernard Hislaire presides over the choices of the Victor Rossel Comics Academy.
« Pipeline » de Rachel M. Cholz
Alix, crushed by neoliberalism, finds the ultimate vein in the hollow of a forest, away from prying eyes and greed: a pipeline, which guarantees the city’s supply of oil. In an atmosphere of Mad Maxclandestine trafficking of the precious liquid, whose price continues to rise, is taking place. Life boils, in the margins and in this novel with harsh, dry writing.
“War and Rain” by Velibor Golic
It is the hallucinatory story of a soldier enlisted in the Bosnian-Croatian army during the aggression of Bosnia by the ex-Yugoslav army. A universe of fear. And often desperate humor. Like ripping off an old man’s breathing apparatus to sell it…
“Mythology of.12” by Célestin de Meeûs
A day of the summer solstice. Two young guys zone out, drink, smoke pot, go into the woods to continue being bored around a cabin, at the foot of a pond. A doctor is dumped, his wife has left him, his dream of success has shattered, he drinks, he is paranoid. These three had to meet. Tragically, of course.
“Eureka in the Night” by Anne-Sophie Kalbfeisch
Eureka, a devout town in the center of the United States, surrounded by cornfields. Ellie and May. They are young, they are crushed by their environment, they love each other. They are in search of freedom, the enigmatic and the volcanic. Like Eleanor, Ellie’s mother, who paid for it.
“The Voice of the Willows” by Nathalie Skowronek
The author leads a writing workshop in a psychiatric environment. She discovers a humanity in suffering, but made up of particular, human beings, rich in their despair and their hopes, in fleeting happiness. The author gives and receives, she confronts others, she is in search of meaning.
