The jury has just revealed its selection of novels competing for the Prix Goncourt 2017. A few surprises, including the selection of Eric Vuillard for "L'ordre du jour" (Actes Sud), which appeared last spring and not this re-entry, and the fact that there is no first novel there ... That is to say that five novelists selected are already included in the first selection of the Renaudot Prize. The most prestigious literary prize of the French-speaking world will be awarded on November 6th.

Books selected for the Goncourt Prize

• Marie-Hélène Lafon, Our Lives (Buchet-Chastel)
• François-Henri Désable, A certain M. Piekielny (Gallimard)
• Alice Zeniter The Art of Losing (Flammarion)
• Monica Sabolo, Summer (J.-C. Latès)
• Yannick Haenel, Hold your crown (Gallimard)
• Alexis Ragougneau, Niels (Viviane Hamy)
• Olivier Guez The Disappearance of Josef Mengele (Grasset)
• Kaouther Adimi, Our Wealth (Seuil)
• Patrick Deville, Taba-Taba (Seuil)
• Philippe Jaenada, The Serpe (Julliard)
• Eric Vuillard, The Order of the Day (Actes Sud)
• Yves Ravey, Three days with my aunt (Editions de Minuit)
• Brigitte Giraud, A Wolf for Man (Flammarion)
• Véronique Olmi, Bakhita (Albin Michel)
• Frédéric Verger, The Dreamers (Gallimard)

• 10%

It is the percentage of women who won the Goncourt in 119 years! Last time, it was Lydie Salvayre who won the prize for " Not crying " .

• 1932

It was the year when François Nourissier named the "Goncourt scandal" - Louis-Ferdinand Céline's novel " Journey to the End of the Night" was ousted by 6 votes to 4.

• 10 euros only ...

This is reported on an account (quite simple of the Caisse d'Epargne) the Goncourt prize to the winner. Even if an investigation by Slate magazine would have determined that the Goncourt Prize is the most "juicy" of literary prizes. "The Goncourt effect" includes sales after the price, which are thought to be highly correlated to the price!

• 8 to 12%

That's what the author touches does mean on every sale.

• 300,000

It is the average print in copies of a Goncourt. It should be noted that the largest circulation in 1984 was Marguerite Duras' "L'Amant", published by Éditions de Minuit, which reached 700,000 copies, followed by the 600,000 copies in 1990 of the Champs d'Honneur Jean Rouaud at the same publisher and then, in 2006, by the 500,000 copies of "Bienveillantes" by Jonathan Littell published by Gallimard.