Amélie Nothomb still in the running for the Goncourt

Paris (AFP)

The Belgian novelist Amélie Nothomb, whose novel "Soif" is at the top of the book sales for several weeks, is still in the running for the Goncourt prize.

The jury chaired by Bernard Pivot unveiled Tuesday the second selection of the most prestigious literary prize in the French-speaking world, which now has nine contenders.

The list does not count any more primo-novelist but preserves three authors (Santiago H. Amigorena, Nathacha Appanah and Jean-Luc Coatalem) which also appear in the selection of Renaudot which will be awarded, like the Goncourt, on November 4th.

Here is the list, in alphabetical order of authors, of the second selection of Goncourt:

- Santiago H. Amigorena, "The Inner Ghetto" (POL)

- Nathacha Appanah, "The sky over the roof" (Gallimard)

- Dominique Barbéris, "A Sunday in Ville-d'Avray" (Arléa)

- Jean-Luc Coatalem, "The part of the son" (Stock)

- Jean-Paul Dubois, "All men do not live the world in the same way" (L'Olivier)

- Leonora Miano, "Empress Red" (Grasset)

- Hubert Mingarelli, "The Invisible Earth" (Buchet Chastel)

- Amélie Nothomb, "Thirsty" (Albin Michel)

- Olivier Rolin, "Outside world" (Gallimard)

The Goncourt jury will choose its finalists on October 27 in Cabourg (Calvados).

Authors not selected in the second selection are still in the running for the Goncourt high school students.

The young jurors choose their laureate among the authors chosen by the academicians Goncourt (with the exception of Léonora Miano who already obtained this award in 2006) during their first selection.

The winner of Goncourt high school students will be known Thursday, November 14.

Last year, the Goncourt prize was awarded to Nicolas Mathieu for "Their children after them" (Actes Sud) and the Goncourt high school students to David Diop for "Brother of soul" (Seuil).

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