The Goncourt Academy has unveiled the first selection for the prize, which will be awarded on November 10.
In this list of 15 novels, there are well-known values such as Emmanuel Carrère and Sarah Chiche.
The novels of Emmanuel Carrère, Sarah Chiche or Lola Lafon are in the first selection of the Goncourt prize unveiled on Tuesday, which has 15 titles.
The Goncourt academy is scheduled to award its prize on November 10, after tightening its selection on October 6 and 27.
Three titles from Gallimard
The presence of
Yoga
,
by Emmanuel Carrère, one of the greatest successes of this literary season, was widely anticipated.
Saturn
, Sarah Chiche,
Chavirer
, Lola Lafon or
Un crime sans importance
, Irène Frain are also serious candidates, present in the selections of other juries.
L'Anomalie
, by Hervé Le Tellier,
Thésée, sa vie nouvelle
, by 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.
Here are the 15 novels of the first selection:
- Mohammed Aïssaoui,
Les Funambules
(Gallimard)
- Djaïli Amadou Amal,
Les Impatientes
(Emmanuelle Collas)
- Miguel Bonnefoy,
Héritage
(Rivages)
- Emmanuel Carrère,
Yoga
(POL)
- Sarah Chiche,
Saturne
(Seuil)
- Irène Frain,
A crime unimportant
(Threshold)
- Lola Lafon,
Chavirer
(Actes Sud)
- Hervé Le Tellier,
L'Anomalie
(Gallimard)
- Jean-Pierre Martin,
Mes fous
(L'Olivier)
- Carole Martinez,
Les Roses fauves
(Gallimard)
- Tobie Nathan,
The Society of Beautiful People
(Stock)
- Camille Pascal,
La Chambre des dupes
(Plon)
- Maël Renouard,
The Historiographer of the Kingdom
(Grasset)
- Maud Simonnot,
The Celestial Child
(The Observatory)
- Camille de Toledo ,
Theseus, his new life
(Verdier)