Barely a month after the departure of Virginie Despentes, two months after that of Bernard Pivot, the Goncourt Academy on Tuesday 11 February appointed the writers Camille Laurens and Pascal Bruckner as new members.
“The academicians Goncourt, unanimously, called among them this Tuesday, February 11, Camille Laurens and Pascal Bruckner”, said the literary society meeting at the Parisian restaurant Drouant, in a communicated. “Camille Laurens was elected at 7e covered [c’est-à-dire la place occupée auparavant par Virginie Despentes], Pascal Bruckner at 1st covered “, previously that of Bernard Pivot, she specifies.
In early January, Virginie Despentes, 50, the youngest member of the jury, explained her departure to her peers, saying that she lacked time to write. Bernard Pivot, 84, president of the academy replaced in January in this role by Didier Decoin, had left him to “ find a free and full use of his time ”.
Camille Laurens, 62, who collaborates with The world, is notably the author of In these arms, for which she obtained the Femina Prize and the Renaudot Prize for high school students in 2000. Pascal Bruckner, 71, author with Alain Finkielkraut in 1977 of New Love Disorder, was notably awarded the Renaudot Prize for The Beauty Thieves, in 1997.
The 2019 Goncourt Prize was awarded to the writer Jean-Paul Dubois for the novel Not all men inhabit the world in the same way.
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