The ENS Foundation, the Chemins fait association and Bibracte (museum and archaeological research center) are pleased to invite you to the presentation of the
fourth Jacques Lacarrière Literary Prize to Eugène Savitzkaya for his book Crazy of Parispublished by Éditions de Minuit (2023).
Friday December 6, 2024 at 6 p.m. in the historic room of the Library of Letters of the École Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm, Paris 5th
The jury awarded a special mention to Ryoko Sekiguchi for The call of smellspublished by POL editions
Eugène Savitzkaya succeeds Matthieu Gounelle for A sky of stones. Travel to Atacama (Gallimard), 2022 prize, Michaël Ferrier for Scrabble (Mercure de France), 2020 prize and Jean-Luc Raharimanana for To come back (Shore), 2018 prize.
Sylvia Lipa Lacarrière and Elie Guillou will read extracts from the authors, accompanied on the flute by Sophie Charpentier.
Please confirm your presence with Patricia Lepaul, communications manager at Bibracte: [email protected] (limited number of places).
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The jury’s words
“It would have seemed as if Paris was preening its feathers or hairs, its elegant crow feathers, its fine goat’s hair. »
Following the “Madman of Paris” in his walk is, “on the way”, like the title of Jacques Lacarrière’s book, seeing a world open up with each step. This magical, poetic, sensual journey pays as much attention to images, words, shapes, objects as to the major current political themes which irrigate this virtuoso book. The spirit of the curious walker that Jacques Lacarrière was inhabits this prose with its jubilant energy.
“Who speaks in the name of the goats and who in the name of the willows? », this “Savitzkaian” question could have been asked by Jacques Lacarrière, a free man, deeply concerned about the state of the world. These two great poets bring, in the wake of their protean works, the human adventure.
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The author
Eugène Savitzkaya was born in Belgium in Saint-Nicolas-lez-Liège in 1955. From 1972 onwards, he built a body of work combining novels, stories, poems and writing on art, sometimes illustrated by artists. He has published since 1977 with Éditions de Minuit, where eighteen of his books have appeared, including Marin mon coeur (1993), Fou trop poli (2005), Fraudeur (Prix Rossel 2015), À la Cyprine (2015). Fou de Paris is his thirteenth novel.
He has published around twenty books with other publishers, including Flanant, Didier Devillez Éditeur (2014), Ici-bas, Yellow Now (2018), Ode au paillasson, Le Cadran ligné (2019), L’amour de loin , The Alum Stone (2013).
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The Jacques Lacarrière Prize
The Jacques Lacarrière Literary Prize recognizes every two years a French-speaking text of high literary standards, extending the spirit of the writer. It crowns the author of a story, novel, collection of short stories, poetry or essay which opens onto the world under the sign of sharing. A protean price, like the work left by Jacques Lacarrière. To find out everything: cheminsfaisant.org
This fourth edition of the prize kicks off a doubly commemorative year for Jacques Lacarrière. Indeed, 2025 marks both the centenary of his birth (December 2, 1925) and twenty years of his death (September 17, 2005).
The year will be rich in reissues and events around his work.
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Le jury
The prize jury is chaired by Valérie Marin La Meslée, author, literary journalist in the culture department of Le Point magazine and contributor to Point Afrique.
It is composed of the following members:
Michaël Ferrier, writer and winner of the Jacques Lacarrière prize in 2020,
Marie-Hélène Fraïssé, author and producer at France Culture, Christian Garcin, writer, Sylvie Germain, writer, Élie Guillou, singer, poet, Sylvia Lipa Lacarrière, actress, artistic delegate of Chemins fait,
Jean-Luc Raharimanana, writer and winner of the Jacques Lacarrière prize in 2018, Anne Simon, author and researcher in zoopoetics, Annie Terrier, creator of the Scriptures Croisés festival in Aix-en-Provence and president of Chemins fait.
