Abdourahman Waberi

The divine song

Zulma-Selection Book & Music Prize of the City of Deauville

Divine Song is a novel, a romantic romance that takes hold of an exemplary life, that of an African-American singer, composer, poet born in Chicago in 1949, whose immense genius and harsh destiny no one can ignore: Gil Scott-Heron, reinvented here as Sammy the Enchanter.

2015 Louis Guilloux Prize Winner

Fabrice Law

Pirates

Gallimard-Selection Book & Music Prize of the City of Deauville

Tony Palacio, fairground man, jazz trumpeter, leaves the family lottery and goes to Marseille. Between survival and petty traffic, he meets Max Opale, a former soldier who has become an expert in ballistics. By turns friend, mentor and rival, Max Opale initiates Tony into violence in an investigation linked to the pirates of Somalia. A novel about our ideals, and the links that unite music, poetry and politics.

Pierre Grillet

Madam dream

Stock Edition-Selection Book & Music Prize of the City of Deauville

At the origin of Alain Bashung's most legendary song, there is a man. And an impossible love. Pierre Grillet tells the story of this woman who inspired words we know in spite of ourselves by heart: they loved each other, fled, betrayed, they were reconciled. They played with their lives. Natasha haunted New York, luxury hotels and mental hospitals. The lovers got lost but the love remained; this is what we discover, page by page, in this spellbinding book.

Olivier Baumont

At the opera, sir!

Gallimard-Selection Book & Music Prize of the City of Deauville

Saint-Simon knew how to listen to his time, and if he only heard the music perhaps, he was careful to memorize everything. The musical echoes that reach us today are magnified by his literary genius; they are fascinating, surprising, and rich in new perceptions both over the period and about the author himself