91st Prix des Deux Magots: 4 finalists in the running

This second selection reflects the image of the prize, with titles that are “coups de coeur”, some off the beaten track, all ardently defended,” declared Étienne de Montety, Chairman of the Jury.

The jury for the Prix des Deux Magots is made up of the following personalities:

Étienne de Montetydirector of Le Figaro Littéraire and writer, president of the jury Laurence Caracalla, journalist Nicolas Carreau, journalist, columnist and author Jean Chalon, journalist and writer Jean-Luc Coatalem, journalist and writer Pauline Dreyfus, writer Clara Dupont-Monod, publisher and writer Jessica Nelson, writer and co-founder of Éditions des Saint Pères Marianne Payot, journalist Abel Quentin, writer

The Prix des Deux Magots, 91 years of freedom of spirit

Created in 1933 as a reaction to the Prix Goncourt, deemed too academic, the Prix des Deux Magots is one of France’s oldest literary awards. The €7,700 prize is awarded to a French-language book published during the year.

In the ninety-one years of its existence, the Prix has rewarded the works of such famous authors as Raymond Queneau (for his first novel Le Chiendent), Antoine Blondin, Albert Simonin, Pauline Réage, Sébastien Japrisot, Christian Bobin and Jérôme Garcin… True to its vocation as a discoverer, it has distinguished and revealed the work of such authors as Marc Dugain, Serge Joncour and, more recently, Pierre Adrian.