They are only nine.
This Thursday, October 1, the Renaudot Prize jury unveiled its second selection.
Among the authors and novels selected, many are already those to appear on other lists.
Four women are still in the running.
Irène Frain and her novel
Un crime sans importance
(Seuil) appear on the Goncourt and Interallié lists;
Marie-Hélène Lafon is with
Histoire du fils
(Buchet-Chastel) in the first selection of Femina;
Diane Mazloum competes with
A swimming pool in the desert
(Lattès) at the Medici and at the Femina.
Finally, Patricia Reznikov continues the race with
Amrita
(Flammarion), present on the Femina.
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- And the novels on the first list of the Renaudot Prize 2020 are ...
Etienne de Montety is in the running for the Interallié and the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française with
La Grande éveuve
(Stock).
Just like Jean-Paul Enthoven with
What Pleased in Blanche
(Grasset).
Finally, Hervé Le Tellier is present on the first list of Medici and Goncourt with
L'Anomalie
(Gallimard).
It should be noted that the jurors have integrated a new candidate.
Simon Liberati, with his novel
Les Démons
(Stock), is already in the running for the Medici Prize.
Five novels were therefore excluded from this second selection.
However, last year, the final list did not include the name of the winner Sylvain Tesson and his
Snow Panther.
.
Ditto in 2018, the jury crowned Valérie Manteau with
Le Sillon
.
As some like to go off-piste, the jurors of the Renaudot Prize go off-list.
So let's expect surprises ...
The Renaudot must be awarded on November 10, the same day as the Goncourt.
Here is the full list of novels:
• What pleased Blanche by Jean-Paul Enthoven (Grasset)
• An unimportant crime by Irene Frain (Seuil)
• History of Marie-Hélène Lafon's son (Buchet-Chastel)
• The Anomaly of Hervé Le Tellier (Gallimard)
• Demons by Simon Liberati (Stock)
• A swimming pool in the desert by Diane Mazloum (J.-C. Lattès)
• The Great Test of Etienne de Montety (Stock)
• La Faucille d'or by Anthony Palou (Rocher)
• Amrita by Patricia Reznikov (Flammarion)
Here is the list of selected tests:
• Life as a book by Olivier Bétourné (Philippe Rey)
• The Paper Cities by Dominique Fortier (Grasset)
• The other Rimbaud by David Le Bailly (The Iconoclast)
• With Pessoa by Frédéric Pajak (Black on white)
The Renaudot jury is made up of: Christian Giudicelli, Frédéric Beigbeder, Dominique Bona, Patrick Besson, Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, Louis Gardel, JMG Le Clézio and Jean-Noël Pancrazi.
