Europe 1 with AFP 6:55 p.m., October 26, 2021
The four finalists for the Goncourt Prize were announced on Tuesday, including the presence of Christine Angot, already awarded the Medici Prize.
Sorj Chalandon, Louis-Philippe Dalembert and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr are also in the running, with an outcome on November 3.
Christine Angot, Sorj Chalandon, Louis-Philippe Dalembert and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr are the four finalists for the 2021 Goncourt Prize, the jury announced on Tuesday.
The prize must be awarded on November 3 at the Drouant restaurant in Paris.
In the running, Christine Angot won the Medici Prize on Tuesday with
Le Voyage dans l'Est
(Flammarion), an account of the incest she suffered from her father.
Collaborationist past and George Floyd
Another favorite, Sorj Chalandon also writes about his father, whose collaborationist past he brings to light, in
Enfant de bastard
(Grasset).
The Haitian writer Louis-Philippe Dalembert signs with
Milwaukee Blues
(Sabine Wespieser) a fiction inspired by the murder of the African-American George Floyd by a white policeman, in May 2020. As for the Senegalese Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, the challenger, he describes the character of a cursed writer in
The Most Secret Memory of Men
(Philippe Rey), a novel also in the running for the Renaudot Prize, which is awarded the same day as the Goncourt.