The literary re-entry 2021 promises to be very rich

Showcase of a Parisian bookstore, January 6, 2021 © Siegfried Forster / RFI

Text by: Carmen Lunsmann

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It is an astonishingly rich winter literary return in France that is on the horizon.

Nearly 500 novels will appear in the first two months of the year, including around sixty first novels - despite the distribution's recommendations to unclog bookstores after a complicated year.

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It is a surprising vintage that is pouring into French bookstores from this January.

Almost a third of the first-time novelists of this literary winter return to work in professions outside the book sector.

From the beekeeper to the hypnotist, including nurses and actors - including Sarah Biasini, the daughter of actress Romy Schneider - nearly 60% are women.

All of them are part of a particularly dense winter start with nearly 500 novels and more than 1,500 essays, documents, surveys and testimonies.

Lots of French novels, but also some foreign heavyweights.

Readers will be able to choose between short stories by horror master Stephen King and a New York social satire by his compatriot Jonathan Miles, or even immerse themselves in World War II through the pen of the Swede Daniel Birnbaum.

On the French side, we find Yasmina Reza, Philippe Delerm and Marie Ndiaye with committed novels, but also Jean-Michel Erre and

Le Bonheur est at the end of the corridor on the left

, an attempt to make us laugh at a neurotic and complex era.

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