The Goncourt, Renaudot and Femina prizes were awarded last week. So it's time for our expert literature. Was 2019 a good year for literary prizes?

What analysis can be made of this literary return and the prizes awarded? First point common to all the laureates: they are all men. The prize of the French Academy for Laurent Binet, the Goncourt for Jean-Paul Dubois, the Renaudot for Sylvain Tesson. Sylvain Prudhomme has earned him the Femina and Luc Lang the Medici Prize.

2019: a year of consecration for old backpackers of literature

The second common point is that these writers are not at their first attempt, they have a work, the winners 2019 reward endurance. The awards have distinguished authors who win the support of all, critical and public. Isabel Contreras, journalist at Livres Hebdo, in charge of literary awards, speaks of a year of consecration. "We have rewarded works, authors who have had success throughout their lives, so this is very good news for these authors, but also for their publishers who have made the bet to support them for so long" , says the journalist.

The return to literature ends slowly, as the season ends. There are still some awards to be awarded: the Wepler price Monday, November 11, the price of Flore 12, the price Interallie 13, and the price of the Style next week.