Prix Goncourt 2011

[pesahson]

Here's the second selection for Prix Goncourt this year:


Delphine de Vigan Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit (JC Lattès)

Lyonel Trouillot La belle amour humaine (Actes Sud)

Morgan Sportès Tout, tout de suite (Fayard)

Véronique Ovaldé Des vies d'oiseaux (L'Olivier)

Carole Martinez Du Domaine des Murmures (Gallimard)

Alexis Jenni L'Art français de la guerre (Gallimard)

David Foenkinos Les souvenirs (Gallimard)

Sorj Chalandon Retour à Killybegs (Grasset)


The third selection is going to be announced on October 25th. The winner will be announced on November 2nd.

The only name that rings a bell is Véronique Ovaldé but I haven't read any of the books from the list.

[pesahson]

The third selection:

Sorj Chalandon Retour à Killybegs Grasset

Alexis Jenni L’Art français de la guerre Gallimard

Carole Martinez Du Domaine des Murmures Gallimard

Lyonel Trouillot La belle amour humaine Actes Sud

[Corswandt]

Alexis Jenni L’Art français de la guerre Gallimard

The victor.

"Limonov" won the Renaudot consolation prize. It was the one I was most interested in given that I had read a lot about the book's subject through The Exile, including some of Limonov's own writings in pidgin English.

Where's that Anglo fellow who always went "France roxx0rz, England suxx0rz" in the threads about French literature and championed Nothomb BTW?

[pesahson]

About the winner:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011...r-alexis-jenni