The prestigious autumn literary prizes are kicking off their 2022 edition this week, with few chosen and many disappointed in this ruthless battle between novelists that is the return to school in September.
We are waiting for it impatiently in the middle of the letters: the first selection of the Goncourt prize arrives on Tuesday. It traditionally has a fifteen novels.
For the authors who place their book there, among a few hundred competitors, it’s a signal that they matter and are in the running. Or, when they have very little chance of winning, they know that their book aroused sympathy.
“It’s a real surprise, I’m delighted! Especially since it’s only a second novel.“, said Lilia Hassaine to AFP following being included in September 2021. But she had no illusions, faced with colleagues who knew mechanics better than she … and the members of the Goncourt Academy.
