The first selection for Prix Renaudot 2024 was announced on Thursday, September 5, 2024. Here are the writers of African descent on the list.
Prix Renaudot is a French literary prize awarded to the author of an outstanding original novel published during the previous year. It was created by ten art critics awaiting the results of deliberations of the Prix Goncourt jury in 1926. It was named for Théophraste Renaudot, who founded La Gazette (later La Gazette de France), an influential weekly newspaper. Some of its winners have been Michel del Castillo, Édouard Glissant, Michel Butor, Jean Cayrol, Louis Aragon, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and Marcel Aymé.
This year, the jury is chaired by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, accompanied by Jean-Noël Pancrazi, Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, Dominique Bona, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, Patrick Besson, Frédéric Beigbeder, Cécile Guilbert, Stéphanie Janicot and Mohammed Aïssaoui. This panel announced the first selection of books in the running in prose (novels) and nonfiction (essays) with the following writers of African descent making the cut;
Novels
- Le Rêve du pêcheur, Hemley Boum (Gallimard)
- Houris, Kamel Daoud (Gallimard)
- Jacaranda, Gaël Faye (Grasset)
- La Symphonie Atlantique, Hubert Haddad (Zulma)
Essays
- La nuit s’ajoute à la nuit, Ananda Devi (Stock)
- Hewa Rwanda, Lettres aux absents, Dorcy Rugamba (JC Lattès)
The next selections will be revealed in the coming weeks.
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