“The 2024 Var Readers’ Prize”, launch of the scheme!

Launch of the 2024 Var Readers’ Prize

As part of the Var Book Festivalwhich will take place on November 22, 23 and 24, 2024 in Toulonthe Var Department is launching the Var Readers’ Prize 2024.

Organized for more than 20 years, this prize will be awarded on Friday November 22. It rewards an adult novel, a youth work and a comic strip from a selection of three works per category. A system that demonstrates the department’s commitment to promoting reading and meeting authors.

Created in 2005 by the Var Department, the Var Readers’ Prize is one of the few literary prizes in France to be awarded by readers themselves. Only readers are judges, making this prize part of the Department’s desire to promote reading, develop links between readers and authors, and encourage everyone to read and to have others read. The Var Readers’ Prize is a flagship action of this cultural policy.

The nine works selected this year were chosen by the Var Departmental Media Library to offer the public a literary foretaste of the Var Book Festival 2024. From June 21 to October 19, 2024, readers will be able to visit the libraries and media libraries of the 96 participating Var municipalities to read and vote. In addition, 42 Var colleges will also participate by allowing their students to vote for two works in the comic strip category.

For more information, readers are encouraged to visit their local library and participate in this unique literary event that celebrates reading and cultural exchange in the region.

You have until October 19 to choose your favorite book and vote for it.

The works in competition

General Literature Category:

A world to remake by Claire Deya (Editions de l’Observatoire)
A story set in 1945 between Hyères and Saint-Tropez, where resistance fighters and adventurers work to clean the beaches of mines left by the Germans.
The child in the taxi by Sylvain Prudhomme (Editions Minuit)
Simon discovers a family secret while searching for a hidden son, the fruit of a passion between his grandfather and a young German girl.
Sauvage by Julia Kerninon (Editions de l’Iconoclaste)
The story of Ottavia, a restaurant chef in Rome, exploring the contradictions and desires of women’s lives.

Youth Albums Category:

The Silence of Redby Mathieu Pierloot and Giulia Vetri (Versant Sud Editions)
Seymour, a vegetarian wolf, saves a little girl and takes her under his wing in a story of friendship and discovery.
The Rabbit Concert by Emmanuel Trédez and Delphine Jacquot (Editions Didier Jeunesse)
Rabbit becomes a musician to impress Doe, with private lessons from a famous violinist, Lion.
Half half by Henri Meunier and Nathalie Choux (Editions du Rouergue)
An inverted mermaid with goddess legs and a sardine head, navigates a world divided by appearances.

Comic Strip Category:

The quest by Frédéric Maupomé and Wauter Mannaert (Editions Le Lombard)
Pelli, a clumsy knight, and the Lady of the Lake set out on a quest to track down a mythical beast.
The Great Migratory Bird by Augustin Lebon and Louise Joor (Editions Rue de Sèvres)
On the planet OZ’inn, a last awakened giant must face a hunt while his legend lives on.
Hana and Taru by Léo Schilling and Motteux (Éditions Dargaud)
Taru, a young, marginalized hunter, teams up with Hana to understand a nature that has become uncontrollable and deadly.

Find more information on the Var Departmental Council website