Finalists for Prix Goncourt 2024 Announced at Bucharest Press Conference

This year, the titles from the third selection of the Prix Goncourt will be announced from Bucharest, by the members of the Academie Goncourt themselves: on Tuesday, October 22, starting at 12.30, in an international press conference that will take place at the headquarters in Amzei of the National Museum of Romanian Literature (Nicolae Crețulescu street no. 8).

The event represents an unprecedented act in the judging stages of the prestigious award in Hexagon. The presence of the members of the Académie Goncourt in Bucharest to announce the finalist books is an opportunity to mark the excellent relations between the two countries and to enrich the list of events organized this year on the occasion of the Centenary of the French Institute in Romania, founded in Bucharest on May 29, 1924 and present throughout the country through three other branches in Cluj-Napoca, Iasi and Timișoara.

At the press conference on October 22, seven of the ten members of the Académie Goncourt will take part: Philippe Claudel, the president of the Academy since the spring of this year, Pascal Bruckner, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Camille Laurens, Paule Constant, Pierre Assouline, Didier Decoin. Three of the jurors will participate online: Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Françoise Chandernagor and Christine Angot. Along with the members of the Académie Goncourt, the following will also be present at the event: His Excellency Mr. Nicolas Warnery, the Ambassador of France in Romania, Eva Nguyen Binh – executive president of the French Institute in Paris, Julien Chiappone-Lucchesi – the director of the French Institute in Romania.
“How could we not be excited to come to Bucharest to announce the third selection and, above all, to celebrate the centenary of the French Institute in Romania? Our two Latin countries, united for a long time by human and cultural ties and by fruitful collaborations, can only be enriched by continuing their dialogue in a Europe that is currently searching for its meaning and future”, said Philippe Claudel, President of the Goncourt Academy.
The semifinalist novels at Prix Goncourt 2024, from which the jury will choose and publicly communicate the names of the four finalist books in Bucharest, are:
• Madelaine avant l’aube, by Sandrine Collette (JC Lattès)
Houris, by Kamel Daoud (Gallimard)
• Jacaranda, by Gaël Faye (Grasset)
• Archipels, by Hélène Gaudy (L’Olivier)
• La désinvolture est une bien belle chose, by Philippe Jaenada (Mialet-Barrault)
• Jour de ressac, by Maylis de Kerangal (Verticales)
• Vous êtes l’amour malheureux du Führer, by Jean-Noël Orengo (Grasset)
• Le Bastion des tears, by Abdellah Taïa (Julliard).
The calendar for this year’s edition of the Prix Goncourt debuted on September 3, when the 16 novels competing in the 122nd edition of the prestigious prize were publicly announced. On October 1, the 8 semi-final titles were announced, and during the press conference in Bucharest on October 22, the names of the four books entering the final will be made public for the first time. On November 4, in Paris, the name of this year’s winner will be announced: around 1:00 p.m., at the famous Drouant restaurant, the place where this ceremony has been held continuously since 1914.
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