The first selection of novels for the Goncourt Prize revealed on Tuesday, with 16 titles, includes that of Éric Reinhardt and many revelations. Among the “stars” of this literary season, the Académie Goncourt has dismissed authors such as Sorj Chalandon or Amélie Nothomb. It has retained rising novelists such as Jean-Baptiste Andrea, who has already won the Fnac novel prize, Dorothée Janin, the Canadian Kevin Lambert, or even Émilie Frèche.
One of the most noticed first novels of this new school year, that of Neige Sinno, rubs shoulders with those of two academics, Laure Murat and Cécile Desprairies, or Mokhtar Amoudi, already crowned with the Envoyé par la Poste prize. The most prestigious of French literary prizes is to be awarded on November 7, at the Drouant restaurant in Paris as tradition dictates.
A second selection is scheduled for October 3, then the list of four finalists is to be revealed on October 25 in Krakow, to celebrate 25 years of the first “Goncourt choice”, a series of international awards whose juries are made up of students and French and Francophile high school students.
