Prize season obliges, children’s literature was also in the spotlight this week with the Friday 2024 Prize.
Article written by franceinfo – Cécile Ribault Caillol
Radio France
Published on 10/11/2024 10:40
Reading time: 3min
“La Chasse”, M. Desmailles and “Charbon bleu”, A. Loyer (PRICE FRIDAY)
The literary prize season is in full swing, including for young people. This week, Tuesday November 5, at the Marguerite Yourcenar media library in Paris, the Friday Prize was awarded.
This is the 8th edition of this national prize for adolescent literature, created at the initiative of the national publishing union. This year, among the thirty works proposed by the publishing houses, ten were selected by the jury so that there ultimately remained only two, for two Prizes: that of a jury of young readers and readers, and the other from professionals in the sector.
The Friday Prize of the Youth Jury Pass Culture 2024, submitted by seven high school students from different regions, focused on the absolutely magnificent book by Anne Loyer, Blue charcoalpublished by Éditions d’Eux. We will have the opportunity to talk about it again with the author next December.
The Friday 2024 Prize was awarded to Maureen Desmailles for The Huntpublished by Thierry Magnier in the L’Ardeur collection. As Claudine Desmarteau pointed out during the award ceremony, the novel The Hunt caught the attention of the jury for its “great literary qualities” and also “to salute this courageous collection, L’Ardeur, which has the demands of literature to speak about desire and sexuality to adolescents.” The collection therefore continues ardently, so to speak, its journey with this new title.
BOOKS AND YOUTH – Listen to the entire interview with Maureen Desmailles during the reception of the Prize Friday 2024
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The Hunt features, Max, a narrator or a female narrator? We don’t know, so it is without gender constraints that he or she experiences his or her first romantic emotions, as Maureen Desmailles explains.
“It’s true that adolescence can weigh on a certain number of social, family, etc. constraints which mean that I was going to say human nature, I don’t really like that word, but the nature of your desire in any case, identifying your desires a little, that can be very complicated. This has been my case for a very long time and I find that it is important to offer to adolescents who read us today. today, works that can help them to do this work of analysis and discovery also of themselves.”
Maureen Desmailles
at franceinfo
A first novel about emotions, sensations and attraction, also with this message from the author when receiving her prize: “What I would like What readers take away from my novel is that heterosexuality is not obligatory! “
The Hunt is a book to read from 15 years old.
Days like nightsSébastien Joanniez, Le Rouergue
Two months with AndréaJulien Dufresne-Lamy, Nathan
InfiltratedLaurent Petitmangin, Actes Sud Jeunesse
The CabinLudovic Lecomte, The Leisure School
The WolfAntonin Sabot, High Talents
The Shells only open in summerClara Héraut, Hachette Romans
Queen of the WestH. Lenoir, Sarbacane. To read from 16 years old
VindictivenessGildas Guyot, Faction
