The Prix Renaudot jury met this Thursday, October 5 at the Hôtel de Massa, under the presidency of Jean-Noël Pancrazi, and established its second fall selection, which goes from sixteen to nine titles.
Gaspard Koenig is still in the running, and remains on the list of Goncourt, the Grand Prix du roman of the French Academy and on the Flore. Maria Pourchet and François Bégaudeau are both in the first selection of Flore. The first novelist Eric Chacour, for his part, is in the race for Femina. Among the best-known authors who disappeared from this second list are Lionel Duroy, Thomas B. Reverdy and Antoine Sénanque.
The list of novels:
François Bégaudeau, Love (Vertical)
Eric Chacour, What I know about you (Philippe Rey)
Sorj Chalandon, L’Enragé (Grasset)
Lilia Hassaine, Panorama (Gallimard)
Gaspard Koenig, Humus (The Observatory)
Maria Pourchet, Western (Stock)
Alexis Salatko, Jules and Jo (Denoël)
Ann Scott, The Insolents (Calmann-Lévy)
Fred Vargas, On the Slab (Flammarion)
The list of tests:
Nathacha Appanah, The Washed Memory (Mercure de France)
Jean-Luc Barré, De Gaulle, a life: nobody’s man (Grasset)
Bruno de Cessole, The Scepter and the Feather (Perrin)
Hubert Haddad, Art and its mirror (Zulma)
Paul Pavlowitch, All Immortals (Buchet-Chastel)
Cédric Sapin-Dufour, Its smell after the rain (Stock)
The Renaudot Prize was created in 1926. The next selection will take place on Thursday October 26, at the Hôtel de Massa, at 5:30 p.m. Proclamation on November 7, at Drouant.
Its jury is made up of Jean-Noël Pancrazi, president, Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, secretary general, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, Dominique Bona, Patrick Besson, Frédéric Beigbeder, Cécile Guilbert, Stéphanie Janicot and Mohammed Aïssaoui.
