The day Maxime Chattam discovered "20 Minutes"

• In 2022,

  20 Minutes

   is 20 years old.

• Each week, a personality, famous or anonymous, tells his special relationship with 

  20 Minutes

   and what the newspaper has changed in his daily life or in his life.

• Today, the writer Maxime Chattam, reader of the newspaper for twenty years and meanwhile become the president of the jury of the

  20 Minutes

   of the novel prize.

It was in 2019 that Maxime Chattam agreed to sponsor the

of the Novel Prize which has since rewarded, each year, an unpublished manuscript on an imposed theme.

"What made me want to participate in the prize was the idea of ​​spreading culture in a popular newspaper, which everyone knows and which everyone has access to because it is everywhere and 'It's free, explains the novelist known for his thrillers bordering on fantasy.

"Culture", "popular", "everyone", these are values ​​that speak to me.

So, if there is a literary prize that could make sense to me, it was particularly this one.

A prize that has already helped to reveal two authors: Estelle Tolliac for

and

in 2020, Giselda Gargano for

in 2021, published by our partner Les Nouveaux Auteurs.

“This newspaper, but who do we pay for it?

»

Between Maxime Chattam and

, it's actually a story that has lasted… for twenty years!

“I was still quite young, remembers the writer who was just beginning his career.

I wasn't too careful, but when I saw the newspaper distributed at the exit of the metro, I asked myself: but who is paying for it?

I thought they wanted to extract money from me, I hadn't understood the concept… And little by little, it became a habit, a ritual and you end up recreating your daily life somewhere.

At the time, I was going to work in the morning and at the station, I ended up buying less the newspaper I was buying and looking for

in the little newspaper rack.

Except that everyone ended up getting into gear: there weren't any left, so we passed it on to the train.

"Have you finished it?"

"Thanks, that's nice."

We read the neighbour's newspaper, in short... It recreated a bit of social fabric on the train.

Of course, now, we can read the news on the phone, and we also have

on the phone, but these memories of exchanges around paper for someone who likes paper, that's something I don't I'll never forget…”

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