Emmanuel Carrère won the Today 2022 prize on October 7. The jury for the prize chaired by Vincent Trémolet de Villers* is made up of Christine Clerc, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, Philippe Tesson, Alain Duhamel, Anna Cabana, Alain-Gérard Slama, Christophe Barbier and Sonia Mabrouk.
They chose, by a majority of votes and from the first round, Emmanuel Carrère for his book V13 (POL).
Emmanuel Carrère had followed for
L'Obs
the trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015. He drew from his legal chronicles, an essay composed in triptych: the victims, the accused, the court.
This camera is also a meditation on suffering, Islamist terrorism, the torments of justice, the fragility and greatness of modernity in the face of what threatens it.
The writer succeeds Gérald Bronner, winner 2021 for his book Apocalypse cognitive (PUF).
Endowed with 50,000 euros thanks to the support of François Pinault, the Today prize, created in 1962 by a group of eminent journalists including Jean Ferniot and André Frossard, rewards each year an essay shedding light on contemporary news.
For sixty years, it has crowned writers and intellectuals such as Raymond Aron, Jean-François Revel, Catherine Nay, Milan Kundera, Régis Debray, Alain Finkielkraut, René Girard, Raphaëlle Bacqué, Mona Ozouf, Patrick Boucheron or Amin Maalouf.
The Today 2022 prize will be awarded to Emmanuel Carrère on October 18 at the Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection.
*Deputy editorial director of Le Figaro.
