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New containment: Goncourt 2020 postponed if bookstores cannot open

2020-10-29T10:23:48.094Z


The famous literary prize, to be awarded on November 10, is pending.Everything is turned upside down, of course. With the announcement of a national reconfinement from midnight Friday, the Goncourt award ceremony, which is to be awarded on November 10, could be postponed. The jury of the prestigious literary award announced that it was waiting to know if the bookstores will be open at that time, he said on Thursday morning. "The Goncourt academics reaffirm their


Everything is turned upside down, of course.

With the announcement of a national reconfinement from midnight Friday, the Goncourt award ceremony, which is to be awarded on November 10, could be postponed.

The jury of the prestigious literary award announced that it was waiting to know if the bookstores will be open at that time, he said on Thursday morning.

"The Goncourt academics reaffirm their total support for booksellers who are facing such a difficult new period, a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic," he wrote in a press release.

"Solidarity with them, they can not consider that the Goncourt price that they were to announce on Tuesday, November 10 is while their bookstores would be closed", he added.

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If indeed bookstores were forced to lower the curtain, the prize would be awarded "at a later date which would be specified according to the evolution of the health situation and government decisions taken", according to the jury.

President Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday a new confinement that will only allow him to do his “essential shopping” from Friday.

Gabriel Attal recommends going to a bookstore this evening ...

The details of the measures, and in particular the nature of the businesses authorized to open, must be specified by Prime Minister Jean Castex during a press conference at 6.30 p.m.

The fact remains that from this Thursday morning, Gabriel Attal, the government spokesman, declared: "Today, before returning home, go to your bookseller to buy a book, I will do it", when he announced that the markets, parks and gardens would remain open ...

# ConfinementSaison2: "Today, before you go home, stop by your bookseller to buy a book, I'll do it", the call from @GabrielAttal in #RTLMatin with @BSportouch 📚 pic.twitter.com/pys7X6gzYE

- RTL France (@RTLFrance) October 29, 2020

On Wednesday, as Mr. Macron began his televised address, the Syndicat de la librairie française issued a press release calling for bookstores to be kept open.

“The local bookstores, which cover our entire territory, have been organized and equipped.

They may be perfectly able to welcome readers in the perspective of a new confinement, in safe and proven sanitary conditions, ”wrote this professional organization.

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A novelist and three novelists remain in the running for the Goncourt Prize: Djaïli Amadou Amal (“Les Impatientes”), Hervé Le Tellier (“L'Anomalie”), Maël Renouard (“The Historiographer of the Kingdom”) and Camille de Toledo, ("Theseus, his new life").

The French Academy awards its Grand Prix du roman 2020 Thursday afternoon, just before the entry into force of the containment measures.

Source: leparis

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