Goncourt of high school students in 2018, International Booker Prize in 2021 for Sull brother, David Diop publish Where is the sky leaning (Julliard) and takes us from ancient Egypt to Senegal through the history of his main character: Bilal Seck. Goncourt of high school students and booksellers prizes for The death of King TsongorGoncourt for his novel The Sun of Scorta, Laurent Gaudé propose Below and “Mirror tense to our consumer societies in the grip of collapse”according to his publishing house ACTS SUD. This is the continuation of the anticipation novel Chien 51.
After the box of Its smell after the rain where he explored his love for his dog Ubac, Cédric Sapin-Defour will publish Where the stars fall (Stock). In a valley in the Italian province of Bolzano, Cédric and Mathilde fly away. But Mathilde falls. This story tells of its reconstruction over several months.
Cédric Sapin-Defour, never without her dog
At Gallimard, Nathacha Appanah (The last brother, tropic of violence …) intertwines the stories of three women victims of domestic violence (Night in the heart). With “Humor and sensitivity”, Lydie Salvayre (Goncourt for Not cry) makes his self -portrait (Self -portrait in black ink – Robert Laffont).
Back too for Olivier Adam a year after the excellent Nothing is happening here. The author of I’m fine don’t worry signe And all life in front of us (Flammarion), novel in which he tells the friendly story of a trio, from childhood to suburban suburbs until today. Laurent Mauvignier (Learn to finish – WEPLER PRICE, Inter BOOK PRICE, Night stories) publish The empty house. “The narrator goes back in time, facing the story and the shattered fate of Marie-Ernestine and Marguerite, faced with the violence of men and two world wars “specifies the Editions de Minuit.
As the name of her book indicates (Maman – recamier), Régis Jauffret tells the story of his mother just after his death, where he discovers that she betrayed him from the beginnings of his life.
Finally, Fatimaauthor of The little last (Black on white), first novel “poetics and fragmented, inclusive and heady “, presents his second book. In Play the gameshe tells the fate of an ordinary high school student (Kayden). A novel “On ambition, the quest for identity and the need to reinvent yourself “.
Without forgetting, pell-mell, Anne Berest – Finistère (Albin Michel), Rachid petrol – The man who read books (Julliard), Franck Bouysse – Between all (Albin Michel), Sarah Chiche – Beloved (Julliard), Clermont-Tonnerre Adelaide – I wanted to live (Grasset), Léonor de Récondo – Walk in your steps (The iconoclast), Chloé Delaume – They call it love (Threshold), Philippe Delerm – The exalted suicide of Charles Dickens (Threshold), Fatou diome – No night will be black (Albin Michel), Joffrine Donnadieu – At the coming nights (Gallimard), Hélène FRAPPAT, Nero (South acts), Nancy Huston – The inexpressible (South acts), Joseph Incardona – The world is tired (Finitude), Victor isin – The bad player (Flammarion), Simon Johann – Burn ask (Allia), Journard – The merchant of forgetting (Gallimard), Titiou Lecoq – Life looks like that (The iconoclast), Alain Mabanckou – Ramses of Paris (Threshold), Anthony Passeon – Jacky (Grasset), Antoine Sénanque – Farewell Kolyma (Grasset), Laura Vazquez – Forges (Editions of the subsoil), Hélène Zimmer – The latest scriptures (POL). And many others….
Belgians
There will be Belgian authors published in France. This is the case withAmélie Nothomb. After talking about his father in Premier sang et Psychopompeshe publishes So much the better (Albin Michel) pour evoke his mother.
WEPLER PRICE – La Poste Foundation, and Inter Book Price for Mahmoud or the rise of waters, Goncourt prize for the news for The Museum of Contradictions, Antoine Wauters present High-folie. He narrates the life of a man whose family was struck by dramas with a central question: can we be at peace by ignoring everything about his line?
The beautiful darkthis is the name of the new novel by Caroline Lamarche (Threshold). The Belgian writer looks at the fate of a woman who turns on her past, including an ancestor banished by her family and the coming out of her ex-husband. His book was selected for the literary prize The world.
Abroad ?
On the side of foreign novels, the olive editions publish James of Percival EverettRecipient of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer of Fiction 2025, for his rewriting of Mark Twain’s book: The adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Gallimard translated Kairos of Jenny Erpenbecka novel at the end of Eastern Germany which earned its author the international Booker Prize in 2024.
Jesmyn Warddouble winner of the National Book Award (2011 and 2017), wrote We will be a storm (Belfond). It immerses us in the heart of the tragedy of slavery.
Note the publication of the book of John Boyne (The striped pajamas boy). In The elements (JC Lattès), through four stories (Water, earth, fire, air), The Irish writer signs a kaleidoscopic fresco featuring a mother on the run, a young football prodigy, a surgeon or a father who goes on a trip with her son.
You can read Also The evidence of my innocence (Gallimard) of Jonathan Coeforeign medical price for The Sleep House. In this novel, the Briton offers an investigation in full rise in extremes and fake news.
Jonathan Coe: “The rare moments when the English allow themselves to express their emotions always have a link with the royal family”
Spanish Javier Cercas (Salamis soldiers), “Atheist, anticlerical, militant lay, stubborn rationalist, impious rigorous” went to the Vatican To ask Pope Francis a question: is it reasonable to believe in the resurrection of flesh and eternal life? He signs The madman of God at the end of the world (South acts).
The brilliant Bulgarian author Guéorgui Gospodinov (International Booker Prize 2023 pour The country of the past) will be published by Gallimard. In The gardener and deathhe evokes paternal love.
The Icelandic Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir signe DJ Bambi (Zulma), the portrait and the fight of Logn, a biochemist who has always felt woman but was born in a man’s body. In Basically (Gallimard), the Danish author Jens Christian Grøndahl Imagine the life of a man with Parkinson’s disease, whose woman left. One day, he meets his love of youth who will change his existence.
Without forgetting the new books of Joyce Maynard (Where between light – Philippe Rey), Sigrid Nunez (Vulnerable – Stock), Ken Follett (The Circle of Days – Robert Laffont), Harlan Coben (Remember – Belfond), And Brown (The secret of secrets – JC Lattès).
The Literary Prize Calendar
Fnac novel prize: September 22.
Grand Prix of the novel of the French Academy: October 30.
Goncourt: November 4.
Renaudot: November 4.
Femina: November 3.
Medici: November 6.
Interallié: November 12.
Goncourt prize for high school students: November 24.
