The Interallié 2024 prize was awarded, on Wednesday November 13, to the writer and journalist Thibault de Montaigu45 years old, for his work Heart, published by Albin Michel editions.
With this sixth novel, selected for the Jean Giono and Renaudot prizes, Thibault de Montaigu reveals a part of his family history, weighing the weight of his origins in his own trajectory. By investigating one of his ancestors, Louis Tassin de Montaigu, captain of the Hussars who was cut down in 1914, the writer ends up painting the portrait of a family haunted by honor, glory and aristocracy, but also by seduction and dilettantism.
A graduate of the Journalist Training Center, Thibault de Montaigu began his career at Liberation then collaborated with several newspapers. Since January 2018, he has been the editor-in-chief of the magazine The Official Travel. In 2004, he published his first novel, The Angels are burningpublished by Fayard.
A multi-award winning author
Seven years later, his third opus, Grand gestures at night (Fayard), is a finalist for the Interallié prize and the Fitzgerald prize. A fourth title, Zanzibar (Fayard, 2013), climbs into the finalist list of the Nimier prize and the Top Ten of the magazine Elle. After a detour through the test with Travel around my cock (Grasset), the author returns to the novel by publishing Grace (Plon, 2020), crowned with the Flore prize the same year.
The jury for the Interallié prize was composed of Jean-Marie Rouart (president), Stéphane Denis, Gilles Martin-Chauffier, Eric Neuhoff, Christophe Ono-dit-Biot, Jean-Christophe Rufin, Jean-René Van der Plaesten et Florian Zeller.
Last yearGaspard Koenig won the Interallié 2023 prize for Humus (Les Éditions de l’Observatoire).
