The jury for the Trouville-Pavillon Augustine literary prize revealed, Wednesday November 20, a first selection made up of ten titles. A second list, shortened to three titles, will be known on February 7, while the proclamation will be held on Saturday April 5, 2025 in Trouville-sur-Mer.
The selection
- The Age of the Captain d’Isabelle Aupy (Editions of Panseur)
- Masao's Boat d’Antoine Choplin (Bouquet/Castle)
- Always love him of Matthew Gounelle (Arléa)
- Surf day of Maylis of Kerangal (Vertical)
- On the island of Karine Parquet (From Boreas)
- The Rayon Vert hotel of Franck Pavloff (Albin Michel)
- The sea is a wall of Marin Postel (Phoebus)
- After the mist d’Estelle Rocchitelli (Dalva/Robert Laffont)
- After that d’Eliot Ruffel (The Olivier)
- So of Perrine Tripier (Gallimard)
Chaired by Pierre Bergé and Anne Heilbronnthe jury is composed ofArthur Dreyfus, Jean-Baptiste Gendarme, Adrien Goetz, Edouard Jousselin, Denis Michelis, Christine Montalbetti, Véronique Ovaldé, Marie de Prémonville, Laurence Tardieu and Alice Zeniter.
Endowed with 5,000 euros, the Trouville-Pavillon Augustine literary prize recognizes a work of fiction in the French language “giving ample room to the imagination and the presence of the sea or port cities”.
