Véronique Olmi (Special Escapes), Serge Joncour (Human nature) and Jean Rolin (The Bezons Bridge) were included on Tuesday September 8 in the first list of novels selected for the Renaudot Prize, which is due on November 10.
The jury chose 14 titles, nine written by men, five by women, rather in the spotlight at the start of the literary prize season. So we find, in the Renaudot selection, Marie-Hélène Lafon and her Son’s story, which already obtained the price of the booksellers of Nancy Monday.
Among those absent, we can notice the two great bookstore successes of this fall, which are the novels of Amélie Nothomb (Aerostats) and Emmanuel Carrère (Yoga).
In the tests category, the very noticed The Other Rimbaud by David Le Bailly alongside five other titles.
Chaired by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, the jury, which lost Jérôme Garcin, resigned in March, planned to announce the name of the latter’s successor on November 10.
Romans :
– Mohammed Aissaoui, Tightrope walkers (Gallimard)
– Camille Brunel, Metamorphoses (Alma)
– Jean-Paul Enthoven, What Blanche liked (Grasset)
– Irene Frain, An unimportant crime (Threshold)
– Serge Joncour, Human nature (Flammarion)
– Marie-Hélène Lafon, Son’s story (Buchet-Chastel)
– Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomalies (Gallimard)
– Diane Mazloum, A swimming pool in the desert (JC Lattès)
– Étienne de Montety, The Great Trial (Stock)
– Véronique Olmi, Special Escapes (Albin Michel)
– Anthony Palou, The Golden Sickle (Rocher)
– Patricia Reznikov, Amrita (Flammarion)
– Jean Rolin, The Bezons Bridge (POL)
– Jean-René Van der Plaetsen, The Craft of Dying (Grasset)
Tests:
– Adrien Absolu, The disappeared of Joola (JC Lattès)
– Olivier Betourne, Life as a book (Philippe Rey)
– Dominique Fortier, Paper Cities (Grasset)
– Cecile Guilbert, Free wheel (Flammarion)
– David Le Bailly, The Other Rimbaud (The Iconoclast)
– Frédéric Tax, Avec Pessoa (Black and white)
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