The regional deliberations of the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, created and organized by Fnac and the Ministry of National Education, under the patronage of the Académie Goncourt, took place this Monday, November 25 in 6 cities in France: Lyon, Metz , Poitiers, Nîmes, Paris and Rennes.
After more than two months of diligent reading of the 14 novels in the running, from the first selection of the Académie Goncourt, the high school students delegates from each region deliberated behind closed doors. The result is a list of 5 finalist novels (in alphabetical order), including the next winner of the 2024 Goncourt des Lycéens Prize:
Madelaine before dawn/Sandrine Collette (Ed. JC Lattès)
The Lost Children's Club/Rebecca Lighieri (Ed. POL)
Heart/Thibault de Montaigu (Ed. Albin Michel)
The Winter Warriors/Olivier Norek (Ed. MichelLafon)
The Bastion of Tears/Abdellah Taïa (Ed. Julliard).
The 13 high school student delegates, designated during these regional deliberations, will meet in Rennes, behind closed doors, for the major national deliberation on Thursday, November 28 in the morning. They will announce the winner around 1:10 p.m. from Rennes City Hall. The Prize presentation will take place the same day, in the early evening, at the Ministry of National Education, in Paris.
In 2023, the Goncourt Prize for High School Students was awarded to Neige Sinno for her novel Triste Tigre (POL editions).
The Goncourt prize for high school students is a French literary prize organized by Fnac and the Ministry of National Education, whose jury is made up of around 2,000 students. It was created in 1988 by the cultural commercial brand, in collaboration with the Rennes rectorate and with the kindness of the Académie Goncourt.
The Goncourt of high school students allows nearly 2,000 students to read and study the selection of novels from the Goncourt list. This prize allows students from around fifty classes to discover and read all of the new literary novels included in the Académie Goncourt selection. This prize concerns students from all high schools, general, technological and professional, agricultural, penitentiary centers, from second to junior year classes. BTSas well as the establishments of the Agency for French Teaching Abroad (AEFE) and those of the French Secular Mission (Mlf), particularly those furthest from a literary culture.
An establishment cannot participate two years in a row and must wait three years before applying again.
Front page visual: Goncourt des Lycéens 2023 in Rennes © Sarah Bastin
