After the first selections announced at the beginning of the week by the jurors of the Goncourt, Médicis and Femina awards, here is the first list of Renaudot, with 16 titles selected, in the French novels category.
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If some make a first appearance thanks to Renaudot, including Catherine Cusset, Justine Lévy, Amélie Nothomb, for her thirtieth novel, Nicolas Chemla (
Murnau des ténèbres
), others confirm the interest that their new novel has already aroused. Thus, the first novelist Etienne Kern, and his
Les Envolés
, which was also selected by the jurors of the Femina Prize, Anne Berest, already present, with
The Postcard
, on the first selection of Goncourt and Femina, just like Abel Quentin. Note the presence of the Senegalese writer Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, who also caught the attention of the Medici, Femina and Goncourt jury as well as Agnès Desarthe, spotted by the members of the Goncourt Academy. In the tests category, we will retain the presence of our collaborator Anthony Palou, that of Frédéric Gros, and Jakuta Alikavazovic (Like a sky in us).
Still in the news of the spring grand prizes, we learned that Philippe Claudel has just been appointed secretary general of the Académie Goncourt, replacing Didier Decoin (76), who officially becomes president of the prestigious jury, two days after having delivered his first selection of sixteen novels, launching the autumn race for the great literary prizes. At the same time, her colleague, the novelist Camille Laurens, member of the Academy since February 2020, was elected treasurer. Aged 59, winner of the Goncourt des lycéens in 2007 with
The Brodeck Report
, Philippe Claudel joined the jury, which traditionally meets at Drouant, in 2012, replacing Jorge Semprun.
The list of works selected for the Renaudot, in alphabetical order of author's name and by category:
Novels:
Sophie AVON -
A remarkable woman
, Mercure de France
Anne BEREST -
The Postcard
, Grasset
Nicolas CHEMLA - Murnau des ténèbres, Le Cherche-Midi
Catherine CUSSET -
The Definition of Happiness
, Gallimard
Pierre DARKANIAN -
The Chinese Report
, Anne Carrière
Christophe DONNER -
France goy
, Grasset
Etienne KERN -
Les Envolés
, Gallimard
Louis-Henri DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Sand castles
, Robert Laffont
Agnès DESARTHE -
The eternal fiancé
, L'Olivier
Justine LEVY -
Her son
, Stock
Gilles MARTIN-CHAUFFIER -
The last tribune
, Grasset
Amélie NOTHOMB -
First Blood
, Albin Michel
Maria POURCHET -
Fire
, Fayard
Mathieu PALAIN -
Don't stop running
, The Iconoclast
Abel QUENTIN -
The Seer of Etampes
, The Observatory
Mohamed Mbougar SARR -
The most secret memory of men
, Philippe Rey
Tests:
Gwenaëlle AUBRY -
Saint-Phalle
, Stock
Frédéric GROS -
Shame is a revolutionary feeling
, Albin Michel
Gaspard KOENIG -
On horseback in the footsteps of Montaigne
, L'Observatoire
Jean LEBRUN -
Here Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Christmas 1941
, Blue around
Etty MANSOUR -
Conveyor of Death
, Ecuador
Anthony PALOU -
In my street there were three shops
, Presses de la Cité
Olivier RASIMI -
Baby
, Arléa
Catherine SAUVAT -
Since I read you I admire you
, Fayard
Sandra VANBREMEERSCH -
The Reclining Lady
, Threshold
Jakuta ALIKAVAZOVIC -
Like a sky in us
, Stock
