Europe 1 - GMF Literary Prize: the nominees are...

Highlights: The Europe 1 - GMF Literary Prize rewards a work that celebrates the collective and human values. Last year, the jury rewarded Antoine Billot for Le soldat Ulysse, the story of the quest for identity of an amnesiac soldier in 1919. Let's take a look at this year's nominees. See you on June 14 to find out who will win the prize for the best novel of the year. The prize is sponsored by GMF and is open to the public.

The Europe 1 - GMF Literary Prize rewards a work that celebrates the collective and human values. Who will succeed last year's winner, Antoine Billot, with his book Le soldat Ulysse? See you on June 14 to find out.

Claire Bailly 14:36 p.m., May 29, 2023, modified at 14:57 p.m., May 29, 2023

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Highlighting those who work in the service of the collective is the vocation of the Europe 1 - GMF Literary Prize. For this fourth edition, solidarity, collective commitment and human values are once again at the heart of the books selected by Nicolas Carreau, president of the jury and Europe 1 literature specialist. Last year, the jury rewarded Antoine Billot for Le soldat Ulysse, the story of the quest for identity of an amnesiac soldier in 1919. Let's take a look at this year's nominees.

"The poetry of the markets" by Anne-Laure Delaye

Lucie is a financial analyst in a start-up that is a priori "cool", but in which everyone is actually stressed. But when the world threatens to collapse, filling out Excel tables is no longer enough. Surrounded by two colleagues, a homeless artist and philosopher and Robert, an iguana, Lucie launches the PVV project: the Vibratory Poetry of the Living. A light first novel in which poetry reenchants and modifies the vision of the world, and which places the strength of the collective as a bulwark against gloom.

"Two Innocents" by Alice Ferney

Claire teaches in an associative establishment aimed at putting young people in great difficulty on the rails of working life. She flourishes there, until the day she finds herself involved in an inextricable history that will, from suspicion to injustice, confront her with the slightest false folds of misunderstanding and fatality. A fearsome and captivating narrative, illustrating the complexity of human relationships and the ravages of denial of tenderness. Commitment and human sincerity are at the heart of the story.

"Mecano" by Mattia Filice

A first novel and already a small phenomenon of the literary season. Mattia Filice draws on her own experience and immerses us in the railway world, its laws, its codes, its dangers. Throughout this initiatory journey, we discover the different facets of trains and the driver's profession against a background of social learning, at the crossroads of more or less dented destinies. A formative novel that is both intimate and collective, where verse and prose intersect.

"Disco Queen" by Stéphanie Janicot

Soizik, approaching retirement, seeks lightness in his heavy daily life. So she decides to realize the dream of her life: to open a disco club in her village with the help of her relatives. But when she announces that she wants to bring John Travolta for a revival of Saturday Night Fever and the election of the local Disco Queen, no one believes it anymore... Between lightness, good humor, depth and fantasy, the book questions us about our life choices, our aspirations and our chosen paths.

"Yesterday for nothing" by Alain Raimbault

Alain Raimbault is inspired by his experience as a volunteer in a long-term care residential centre (CHSLD) during the pandemic. A universe that is both tender and disturbing, because each day is experienced twice by the narrator! The opportunity for him to attend comical scenes, but also to take a step back from life and the notion of inevitability. Loneliness and solidarity coexist in this novel, through an endearing and funny main character who always tries to see the bright side of things and people.

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