First Novel
A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to p ...
Prize'') is a French literary prize awarded to an unpublished novelist between the ages of 18 and 30. The monetary reward is 3,000 Euros.
The prize was first awarded in 1977. Starting with 1998 a separate award is given to the best first novel by a foreign writer. The jury is made out of literary critics and the current president of the jury is the French historian and critic Joël Schmidt.
Winners of Prix du Premier Roman
*1977:
Michel Arrivé
Michel Arrivé (7 December 1936 – 3 April 2017) was a French novelist, short story writer, linguist and academic. He was a Professor of Linguistics and Semiotics at Paris Nanterre University from 1983 to 2006. He authored several novels and shor ...
Flammarion Flammarion may refer to:
* Camille Flammarion (1842–1925), French astronomer and author
* Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion (1877–1962), French astronomer, second wife of Camille Flammarion
* Sylvie Flammarion (1836-1919), French feminist and paci ...
Dan Franck
Dan Franck (born 17 October 1952 in Paris) is a French novelist and screenwriter.
His novel ''La Séparation'' won the 1991 Prix Renaudot, and was made into a movie, ''La Séparation''.
Works
*''Apolline'', Seuil, 1997,
*''Bohèmes'' Calman ...
Calmann-Lévy
Calmann-Lévy is a French publishing house founded in 1836 by Michel Lévy as Michel Lévy frères. His brother Kalmus Calmann Lévy joined in 1844. After Michel's death in 1875, the firm was renamed ''Calmann Lévy''.Annick Geille, '' Portrait d'un amour coupable'',
Éditions Grasset
Éditions Grasset () is a French publishing house founded in 1907 by (1881–1955). Grasset publishes French and foreign literature, essays, novels and children's books, among others.
Bernard Grasset sold ownership of the company to Hachette ...
*1982:
Bruno Racine
Bruno Racine (born 17 December 1951 in Paris) is a French civil servant and writer.
Early life and education
Racine is the son of Pierre Racine (a conseiller d'État) and Edwina Morgulis, Bruno Racine was born in Paris. He studied at the Écol ...
Elvire Murail
Elvire Murail (born 7 June 1958, in Le Havre) is a French writer, mainly author of books for youth under the pen name Moka. The daughter of poet , she is the younger sister of writers Marie-Aude and Lorris Murail, and composer Tristan Murail.
...
Alexandre Jardin
Alexandre Jardin (; born 14 April 1965) is a French writer, film director and winner of the Prix Femina
The Prix Femina is a French List of literary awards, literary prize awarded each year by an exclusively female jury. The prize, which was ...
Jean-François Merle
Jean-François () is a French given name. Notable people bearing the given name include:
* Jean-François Carenco (born 1952), French politician
* Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832), French Egyptologist
* Jean-François Clervoy (born 1958), ...
Arléa
Arléa is a French publishing house created in 1986.
Arléa publishes thirty new titles each year, including pocket ones. His catalog contains more than a thousand titles: the great classics of Antiquity (whether Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit or ...
Albin Michel Albin may refer to:
Places
* Albin, Wyoming, US
* Albin Township, Brown County, Minnesota, US
* Albin, Virginia, US
People
* Albin (given name), origin of the name and people with the first name "Albin"
* Albin (surname)
;Mononyms
* Albin of ...
*1991:
Patrick Séry Patrick may refer to:
*Patrick (given name), list of people and fictional characters with this name
* Patrick (surname), list of people with this name
People
*Saint Patrick (c. 385–c. 461), Christian saint
* Gilla Pátraic (died 1084), Patrick ...
Mercure de France
The () was originally a French gazette and literary magazine first published in the 17th century, but after several incarnations has evolved as a publisher, and is now part of the Éditions Gallimard publishing group.
The gazette was publis ...
*1993:
Christophe Bataille
Christophe Bataille, born 1971, is a French writer.
Biography
After studying management at HEC Paris, Christophe Bataille worked for two years in London in cooperation for L'Oréal. It was there that he wrote his second novel, ''Absinthe'', fo ...
NiL Éditions
NiL Éditions is a French publishing house
Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term ...
*1996:
Pascale Roze
Pascale Roze (born 1954 Saïgon, Vietnam) is a French playwright, and novelist.
After a literature degree, she worked for fifteen years with Gabriel Garran International French Theater.
Awards
* 1996 Prix Goncourt
The Prix Goncourt ( , "Th ...
Lieu-dit
''Lieu-dit'' (; plural: ''lieux-dits'') (literally ''location-said'', "named place") is a French language, French toponymic term for a small geographical area bearing a traditional name. The name usually refers to some characteristic of the plac ...
'', Calmann-Lévy
*1998: Christine Chaufour Verheyen, '' Rive dangeureuse'',
Fayard
Fayard (complete name: ''Librairie Arthème Fayard'') is a French Paris-based publishing house established in 1857. Fayard is controlled by Hachette Livre.
In 1999, Éditions Pauvert became part of Fayard. Claude Durand was director of Fayar ...
*1999:
Boualem Sansal
Boualem Sansal (, born 15 October 1949 in Theniet El Had) is an Algerian author who writes in French. In 2024, he became a French citizen. He holds an engineering degree from the National Polytechnic School and a PhD in economics. Sansal has wo ...
Claude Claude may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
* Claude (surname), a list of people
* Claude Callegari (1962–2021), English Arsenal supporter
* Claude Debussy (1862–1918), ...
L'Heure de la sortie
School's Out () is a 2018 French social drama thriller film directed by Sébastien Marnier who co-wrote the script with Elise Griffon, based on Christophe Dufossé's 2002 novel of the same name.
Synopsis
Substitute French teacher, Pierre Hoff ...
Hédi Kaddour
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Hédi Kaddour (born 1 July 1945 in Tunis) is a French poet and novelist.
Biography
Hédi Kaddour was born of a Tunisian father and a French mother. Received 1st at the Agrégation in France, aggregation ...
Éditions Phébus
The éditions Phébus is a French publishing house established in 1976 by Jean-Pierre Sicre and taken over in 2003 by the .
Catalogue
Phébus publishes a catalog of French and foreign literature that is both contemporary (Julie Otsuka, Elif Sh ...
Éditions du Seuil
Éditions du Seuil (), also known as Le Seuil, is a French publishing house established in 1935 by Catholic intellectual Jean Plaquevent (1901–1965), and currently owned by La Martinière Groupe. It owes its name to this goal "The ''seuil'' (th ...
*2010: Victor Cohen Hadria, for ''Les trois saisons de la rage''
*2011: Marien Defalvard, for ''Du temps qu'on existait'', Grasset
*2012: , for ''L'Assassin à la pomme verte'', Serge Safran
*2013: Clément Bénech, for ''L'Été slovène'', Flammarion
*2014: , for ''Vera'', Mercure de France
*2015: Didier Castino, for ''Après le silence'', Liana Levi
*2016:
Gaël Faye
Gaël Faye (; born 6 August 1982) is a Rwandan–French singer, songwriter, rapper, and writer.
Personal life
Faye was born in Bujumbura, Burundi, of a French father and Rwandan mother. He moved to France at the age of 13, escaping from the B ...
, for ''Petit Pays'', Grasset
*2017: Jean-Baptiste Andrea, for ''Ma reine'', L'Iconoclaste
*2018: Clélia Renucci, for ''Concours pour le Paradis'', Albin Michel
*2019: Géraldine Dalban-Moreynas, for ''On ne meurt pas d'amour'', Plon
*2020: Ketty Rouf, for ''On ne touche pas'', Albin Michel
*2021: Maud Ventura, for ''Mon mari'', L'iconoclaste
*2022: Maria Larrea, for ''Les gens de Bilbao naissent où ils veulent'', Grasset
Switzerland
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* 1999:
Boualem Sansal
Boualem Sansal (, born 15 October 1949 in Theniet El Had) is an Algerian author who writes in French. In 2024, he became a French citizen. He holds an engineering degree from the National Polytechnic School and a PhD in economics. Sansal has wo ...
, Le Serment des barbares (
Algeria
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United States
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)
* 2001:
Keith Ridgway
Keith Ridgway (born 2 October 1965) is an Irish novelist and short story writer. He has won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Prix Femina Etranger, the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger, the O. Henry Award, and the James Tait Black Mem ...
, ''The Long Falling'' (
Ireland
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Lavinia Greenlaw
Lavinia Elaine Greenlaw (born 30 July 1962) is an English poet, novelist and non-fiction writer. She won the Prix du Premier Roman with her first novel and her poetry has been shortlisted for awards that include the T. S. Eliot Prize, Forward Pri ...
, ''Mary George of Allnorthover'' (
United Kingdom
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India
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)
* 2005:
Samina Ali
Samina Ali is an American author and activist born in India. Her debut novel, '' Madras on Rainy Days'', won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger award from France and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award in Fiction.
Career
She has served ...
, ''
Madras on Rainy Days
''Madras on Rainy Days'' is a 2004 novel written by Samina Ali.
Overview
The books explores the life of Layla, a second generation Indian-American Muslim. Layla, torn between clashing identities, agrees to her parents' wish for her to leave Ame ...
'' (India)
* 2006:
Benjamin Kunkel
Benjamin Kunkel (born December 14, 1972) is an American novelist and political economist.
He co-founded and is a co-editor of the journal ''n+1.''
His novel ''Indecision'' was published in 2005; and ''Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Cr ...
, Indecision (United States)
* 2007:
Dinaw Mengestu
Dinaw Mengestu (ዲናው መንግስቱ) (born 30 June 1978) is an Ethiopian American novelist and writer. In addition to three novels, he has written for ''Rolling Stone'' on the war in Darfur, and for '' Jane Magazine'' on the conflict in north ...
James Cañón
James Cañón is a List of Colombian Americans, Colombian-American writer. He's the author of the award-winning ''Tales from the Town of Widows''. Cañón was born and raised in Ibagué, Colombia. He writes fiction primarily, though he has also ...
Colombia
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)
* 2009:
Chloe Aridjis
Chloe Aridjis (born 1971) is a Mexican and American novelist and writer. Her novel ''Book of Clouds'' (2009) was published in eight countries, and won the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger. Her second novel, ''Asunder'' was published in 2013 to un ...
Nic Pizzolatto
Nicholas Austin Pizzolatto (born October 18, 1975) is an American author, screenwriter, director, and producer. He is best known for creating the HBO crime drama series ''True Detective'' (2014–present).
Early life
Nicholas Austin Pizzolatto ...
Patrick McGuinness
Patrick McGuinness (born 1968) is a British academic, critic, novelist, and poet. He is a professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Oxford, where he is fellow and tutor at St Anne's College.
He is a Fellow of the Roy ...
, ''The Last Hundred Days'' (United Kingdom)
* 2014:
Rene Denfeld
Rene Denfeld is an American author.
Her first novel, ''The Enchanted'' (Harper 2014), was awarded the French Prix du Premier Roman Etranger award, an ALA Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and a Carnegie Listing. The book was a finalist for the C ...
, ''The Enchanted: A Novel'' (United States)
* 2015: (ex-æquo) Vanessa Barbara, ''Noites de alface'' (
Brazil
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)
* 2015: (ex-æquo) Maja Haderlap, ''Angel of Oblivion'' (
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...
)
* 2016: Davide Enia, ''On Earth as It Is in Heaven: A Novel'' (
Italy
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Germany
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)
* 2018: Shih-Li Kow, ''The Sum of Our Follies'' (
Malaysia
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)
* 2019:
Sana Krasikov
Sana Krasikov (born in Ukraine) is a writer living in the United States, best known for ''One More Year'' (2008) and ''The Patriots'' (2017). She grew up in the Republic of Georgia, as well as the United States. She graduated from Cornell Univers ...
, ''The Patriots'' (United States)
* 2020:
Olja Savičević
Olja Savičević Ivančević (born 1974 in Split) is a Croatian novelist, poet and playwright. She is a winner of the Grand Prize of the Druga prikazna Macedonian Literary Festival (2018), the T-Portal Award for Best Novel (2011), and the Mali Ma ...
Jarred McGinnis
Jarred P. McGinnis (born ) is an American-born writer based in the United Kingdom. In 2021, he was named as one of the best 10 emerging writers from the UK by ''The Guardian''.
Early life and education
McGinnis grew up in Siesta Key, Florid ...
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