Tuesday October 4th, 2022, the Goncourt jurors unveiled the second selection of the 8 novels in the running for the most prestigious and coveted French Literary Prize.

The Haitian novelist and poet Makenzy Orcel appears in this 2nd selection for his novel "Une Somme humaine" at Éditions Rivages, 2022.

List of the second selection of the Prix Goncourt 2022:

Grégoire BOUILLIER ; "Le cœur ne cède pas" Editions Flammarion

Nathan DEVERS : "Les liens artificiels" Editions Albin Michel

Giuliano da EMOPOLI : "Le Mage du Kremlin" Editions Gallimard

Brigitte GIRAUD : "Vivre vite" Editions Flammarion

Cloé KORMAN : "Les Presque Sœurs" Editions Seuil

Makenzy ORCEL : "Une somme humaine" Editions Rivages

Pascale ROBERT-DIARD : "La petite menteuse Editions L'Iconoclaste

Monica SABOLO : "La vie clandestine" Editions Gallimard

The third selection of the Goncourt Prize will take place on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 in Beirut at the opening of the Bey cou th Livres Festival.

The Prize will be announced by the Academicians of Goncourt, at Drouant, on Thursday 3 November,

"Une somme humaine" by Makenzy Orcel, Summary:

"The heroine's voice comes to us from beyond the grave. Both anonymous and embodied, it is the voice of one woman and of all women. She tells us in notebooks stolen from time and death a stolen childhood, a torn adolescence, a shattered life and destiny.

Having grown up in a provincial village where rumour and gossip reign, neglected by her parents, especially by her mother who prefers the roses in her garden, she hardly finds any comfort from her grandmother no more lovely. She escapes to Paris in hopes of leading a life free from the ghosts of the past. There she studied literature at the Sorbonne, found love with a man who had fled the war in Mali, experienced the working world, before finally undergoing the test of abandonment and sinking into poverty. irreversible wandering.

By giving us the autobiography of a dead woman in dazzling language, Makenzy Orcel takes us, through this "Somme humaine", the second part of a trilogy initiated by "L'Ombre animal", into the poetic belly of the world."/i>

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