The jury also awards a special prize rewarding a document (essay, story, etc.) or a comic strip. In collaboration with bookstores and cultural partners, an off-site program extends the presence of the prize and its winners throughout the year.
Here is the selection of the 10 authors selected for this 8th edition:
Last on the listGrégory Cingal, ed. Grasset
The Francs-tireusesEmmanuelle Hutin, ed. Anne Carriere
Say BabylonSafiya Sinclair, ed. Buchet Chastel (trad. Johan-Frédérik Hel Guedj)
The Atlantic SymphonyHubert Haddad, ed. Zulma
The courage of the innocentVéronique Olmi, ed. Albin Michel
The partridge's eyeChristian Astolfi, ed. The Sound of the World
The wind said its nameMohamed Abdallah, ed. To the Devil Vauvert
Spring will returnNour Malowé, ed. Récamier
My mother is a news storyMaria Grazia Calandrone, ed. Globe (trans. Nathalie Bauer)
Darkness and companySigitas Parulskis, ed. Agullo (trans. Marielle Vitureau)
The announcement of the 5 finalists will be made at the end of January 2025. The jury, co-chaired by Jean-François Carenco and Jean-Laurent Lastelle, is made up of personalities, writers, journalists, booksellers and artists: Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès, Maritsa Boghossian, Sophie Brocas, Sorj Chalandon, Françoise Cloarec, Kerenn Elkaïm, Raphaëlle Epstein-Richard, Isabelle Hausser, Emmanuel Hoog, Nathalie Jakobowicz, Jean-Marc Levent, Sarah Moon, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Christian Schiaretti, Béatrice Soulé.
Last year, the Literary Prize was awarded to Itamar Vieira Junior for his novel Charrue Tordue (ed. Zulma) and the Special Jury Prize to Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, for Le convoy (ed. Flammarion).
An extract from each work is provided at the end of the article.
By Clotilde Martin
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