(Paris) The jury for the Renaudot prize has selected 15 novels in its first selection, including four also in the race for the Goncourt, he said on Wednesday.
Posted yesterday at 1:16 p.m.
The books of Grégoire Bouillier, Nathan Devers, Yves Ravey and Monica Sabolo are also in the first selection of Goncourt, traditionally delivered on the same day as Renaudot.
Among the surprises, the jury retains the latest novel (to be published on Friday) by Michel Quint, author of an abundant body of work, but generally shunned by the most prestigious prizes.
The star novel of this literary season, Dear asshole by Virginie Despentes, was out of the race since this author had already won the Renaudot in 2010.
Among the 11 essays, we note that of the journalist Guillaume Durand on the painter Édouard Manet.
The rotating presidency of the jury has been entrusted for this edition to Dominique Bona, of the French Academy.
Novels
- Emma Becker, misconduct (Albin Michael)
- Gregory Bouillier, The heart does not give in (Flammarion)
- Antoine Choplin, Italian part (Buchet-Chastel)
- Sandrine Collette, We were wolves (JCLattes)
- Nathan Devers, The artificial links (Albin Michael)
- Sibylle Grimbert, “The Last of His Own” (Anne Carrière)
- Hubert Haddad, The Devil’s Invention (Zulma)
- Claudie Hunzinger, A dog at my table (Grasset)
- Sylvie LeBihan, The sacrificed (Of Christmas)
- Simon Liberati, Performance (Grasset)
- Laurence Nobecourt, bird opera (Grasset)
- Christophe Ono-dit-Biot, To find refuge (Gallimard)
- Michael Quint, The spring (Serge Safran)
- Yves Ravey, Taormina (Midnight)
- Monica Sabolo, The clandestine life (Gallimard)
Trials
- Anne Akrich, The sex of women (Gallimard)
- Philippe Bordas, The absolute bachelor (Gallimard)
- Guillaume Durand, Let’s have lunch on the grass (Books)
- Raphael Gaillard, A blow to the head (Grasset)
- Yegor Gran, Z as zombie (POL)
- Lola Lafon, When you listen to this song (Stock)
- Jean-Paul Mari, forget the night (Buchet-Chastel)
- Minh Tran Huy, A child without history (South Acts)
- Benoit Peeters, Robbe-Grillet, the adventure of the New Novel (Flammarion)
- Jean-Claude Perrier, Notre Dame photographer (Stag)
- Olivier Philipponnat, Geography of fabulous peoples (Buchet-Chastel)