Carrère, Chiche, Lola Lafon among the selected at Goncourt

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The most prestigious literary prize finally unveils its selection.

The novels of Emmanuel Carrère, Sarah Chiche or Lola Lafon are among the 15 selected for the Goncourt Prize, the list of which was unveiled on Tuesday.

The Goncourt academy is scheduled to award its prize on November 10, after tightening its selection on October 6 and 27.

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by Emmanuel Carrère, one of the greatest successes of this literary season, was widely anticipated.

by Sarah Chiche,

by Lola Lafon or “Un crime sans importance” by Irène Frain are also serious candidates, present in the selections of other juries.

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 of Hervé Le Tellier,

of Camille de Toledo are also in the running for several awards.

Gallimard places three titles in this selection of Goncourt, Seuil two, and the other publishing houses only one.

- Mohammed Aïssaoui,

(Gallimard)

- Djaïli Amadou Amal,

(Emmanuelle Collas)

- Miguel Bonnefoy,

(Rivages)

- Emmanuel Carrère,

(POL)

- Sarah Chiche,

(Threshold)

- Irène Frain,

(Seuil)

- Lola Lafon,

(Actes Sud)

- Hervé Le Tellier,

(Gallimard)

- Jean-Pierre Martin,

(L'Olivier)

- Carole Martinez,

(Gallimard)

- Tobie Nathan,

(Stock)

- Camille Pascal,

(Plon)

- Maël Renouard,

(Grasset)

- Maud Simonnot,

(The Observatory)

- Camille de Toledo,

(Verdier)

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