They are now only eight.
The jury of the Goncourt Prize unveiled its second selection on Tuesday.
Seven novels were dropped from the first list, including that of the favorite, Emmanuel Carrère.
Would the controversy surrounding his story have got the better of him?
Two women are still in the running.
Irène Frain with
Un Crime sans importance
(Seuil), which appears in the second list of the Renaudot prize and those of the Interallié and the grand prix du roman de l'Académie française.
Djaïli Amadou Amal is also selected with
Les Impatientes
(Emmanuelle Collas).
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Mohammed Aïssaoui is still in the race with his novel
Les Funambules
, (Gallimard).
The novel by our collaborator at
Le Figaro Littéraire
is also on the Interallié's first list.
Rightly so, according to Isabelle Spaak:
"With great empathy, Mohammed Aïssaoui then takes us on a fascinating dive among these beings who" float "for want of having been able to reclaim their genealogy", she
judges in her review of September.
The Gallimard house is a double blow since it also places Hervé Le Tellier and his novel
L'Anomalie
in this selection as on the second list of the Medici and Renaudot.
Jean-Pierre Martin and his novel
Mes Fous
(L'Olivier) as well as Camille de Toledo and
Thésée, sa vie nouvelle
(Verdier) are both in the second list of the Medici Prize.
Finally, Miguel Bonnefoy is present with his novel
Héritage
(Rivages) in the second list of Femina and the first list of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.
Maël Renouard appears with
The Historiographer of the Kingdom
, (Grasset), in the first list of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.
The third list, those of the finalists, will be unveiled on October 27 and the proclamation of the winner is expected on November 10.
The complete list of the second selection of Goncourt 2020
Mohammed Aïssaoui
,
Les Funambules,
(Gallimard),
Djaïli Amadou Amal
,
Les Impatientes,
(Emmanuelle Collas),
Miguel Bonnefoy
,
Heritage,
(Rivages),
Irene Frain
,
A Crime Without Importance
, (Threshold),
Hervé Le Tellier
,
L'Anomalie,
(Gallimard),
Jean-Pierre Martin
,
My Fools,
(L'Olivier),
Maël Renouard
,
The Historiographer of the Kingdom
, (Grasset),
Camille de Toledo
,
Theseus, his new life,
(Verdier).
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