Creation of the Léo Scheer prize, to reward “a true novel”

A few months after the death last May at the age of 76 of publisher Léo Scheer, founder of Éditions Léo Scheer in 2000, the creation of a prize in his name has just been announced.

The prize will reward a “ true novel », a text in the genre of autofiction, autobiography, a first-person story, any literary object aimed at translating the author’s own experience, his life, his history. For this first edition, only texts published between January and April 2025 will be eligible.

Prestigious jury

Composed of ” personalities from the literary world who have had a work or friendship link with the Editions », the jury of the Léo Scheer prize welcomes Pascal Oryof the French Academy, which published Anushka at Léo Scheer in 2010, Claire Berest et Louis-Henri de La Rochefoucauld who published their first three books there, literary criticism Marie-Laure Delormethe writer and editor Stéphane Barsacq, Anne Ghisolithe director of the Gallimard bookstore Laetitia Berrutwho runs the Bedford Hotel alongside his father Gérard Berrut, Nathalie Rheimsflagship author of the house, and finally Angie Davidwho directs it.

The first winner of the Leo Scheer Prize will be announced on May 27, 2025 during a ceremony at the Bedford Hotel. A grant of 4,000 euros will be allocated to him.