Eight finalists for Goncourt high school students

Paris (AFP)

Eight authors remain in contention for Goncourt high school students who will be awarded Thursday in Rennes, closing the season of literary awards.

The eight authors, including the unfortunate finalist of the Goncourt Amélie Nothomb prize, were chosen at the end of the regional deliberations that took place simultaneously Tuesday in six cities (Lyon, Metz, Marseille, Nantes, Paris and Rennes).

Twelve high school students, appointed during these six regional deliberations, will meet in Rennes, cradle of the prize, for the great national deliberation, Thursday.

They will announce the winner at 12:45 from the Rennes City Hall.

Goncourt high school students is one of the most prescriptive prices for book sales. According to a recent GfK study for Livres Hebdo for the period 2014-2018, the Goncourt high school students fled an average of 314,000 copies, a little behind the price Goncourt (367,100) but far ahead of other prices.

Here, in alphabetical order of authors, the finalists of Goncourt high school students:

- Santiago H. Amigorena, "The Inner Ghetto" (POL)

- Nathacha Appanah, "The sky over the roof" (Gallimard)

- Louis-Philippe Dalembert, "Mediterranean Wall" (Sabine Wespieser)

- Amélie Nothomb, "Thirsty" (Albin Michel)

- Anne Pauly, "Before I forget" (Verdier)

- Abel Quentin, "Sister" (The Observatory)

- Sébastien Spitzer, "The beating heart of the world" (Albin Michel)

- Karine Tuil, "The human things" (Gallimard)

Last year, the Goncourt high school students had been awarded to David Diop for "Brother Soul" (Threshold).

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