Created in 1991 by the maritime prefect, the Encre Marine prize, the only literary prize of the French Navy, rewards a work that highlights themes related to the sea and the maritime, civil or military world. This year it is awarded to Frédéric Brunnquell for “ storm men » published by Bold. The award will be presented to him on Friday at the inauguration of the Var Book Festival.
The jury was “particularly sensitive to this immersion in the world of deep-sea fishing. Throughout the pages, the reader is immersed both in the intimacy of the crew on board and confined to their fishing vessel and in the immensity of the North Atlantic and its winter storms, to emerge from this reading with a head full of splashes ».
The jury, chaired by Vice-Admiral Gilles Boidevezi, Maritime Prefect for the Mediterranean, was made up of Captain Nicolas Molitor, commander of the air defense frigate” Connect “Christina Baron, curator of the marine museum of Toulon, Emmelene Landon, marine writer and Arnaud Delagrange, writer and journalist of Le Figaro.
