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The books that marked French literature in 2024

With Christmas just around the corner, there's always the question of which books would make the perfect gift for you or your loved ones.

Thanks to the 2024 literary prizes, you can take your pick from a selection of French books that represent the best of French literature this year.

Choose from family dramas, historical novels, satirical portraits and modern tales.

All the books are available at Den Franske Bogcafé.

 

Discover the list of winners:
 
  • The Goncourt Prize has been awarded to Kamel Daoud for Houris (published by Gallimard)
     

Aube is a young Algerian woman who must remember the War of Independence, which she did not live through, and forget the civil war of the 1990s, which she herself lived through. Her tragedy is marked on her body: a scar on her neck and destroyed vocal cords. Mute, she dreams of regaining her voice.
 

  • The Prix Renaudot was awarded to Gaël Faye for his novel Jacaranda (published by Grasset).
     

What secrets does the shade of the jacaranda, Stella's favourite tree, hide? It will take her friend Milan years to find out. Years to pierce the silences of Rwanda, devastated by the Tutsi genocide.
 

In April 2022, Julia Deck's mother suffered a stroke. According to the doctors, her chances of survival are extremely slim. But the patient defies the diagnosis. And so began a long journey through the maze of care institutions, in the hope of convalescence.
 

When his mother dies, Youssef, a Moroccan professor who has been living in exile in France for a quarter of a century, returns to his native Salé at the request of his sisters, to liquidate the family legacy. A whole past resurfaces within him, where suffering and happiness are inextricably intertwined.
 

  • Miguel Bonnefoy won the Femina and the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for Le rêve du jaguar (published by Payot et Rivages)
     

When a mute beggar woman in Maracaibo, Venezuela, takes in a newborn baby on the steps of a church, she has no idea of the extraordinary destiny that awaits the orphan.
 

  • The Prix Interallié was awarded to Thibault de Montaigu for his novel Coeur (published by Albin-Michel).
     

When his ailing father urges him to write about his ancestor Louis, a captain in the Hussars who was killed in a cavalry charge in 1914, Thibault de Montaigu does not yet know what family secret lies behind this heroic death.
 

  • The Goncourt des lycéens award went to Sandrine Collette for her book Madelaine avant l'aube (published by Lattès).
     

Madelaine is the one who does not submit. She is the one who will turn the world upside down. In this, her eleventh book, Sandrine delivers a dark, sensory novel that celebrates the spirit of revolt.
 

  • Benjamin Stock won the Prix de Flore for Marc (published by Rue Fromentin)
     

Marc is the first novel by Benjamin Stock, born in Blois in 1988. It is a satirical portrait of characters in search of meaning and a reflection on the interpretation of texts in the age of ‘post-truth’.

 

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