THE CITY OF DEAUVILLE'SBOOKS & MUSIC PRIZE - OUR 15TH ANNIVERSARY!
The books in competition for the City of Deauville Prize.
Music inspires them in their writing and in their lives. Classical, jazz, rock, world music, it doesn't matter, they all have in common an insatiable appetite for notes. Their book has been selected for the 2018 edition of the Livres & Musiques prize. For fifteen years, the Deauville Festival Livres & Musiques has explored, through its prize, the French literary production and honors contemporary authors for whom music is one of the creative issues. After awarding Frédérique Deghelt in 2017, the 2018 winner will be revealed on April 14, during the Festival. The Prize is endowed with €4,500.
To celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the Books & Music Festival, two events are scheduled around the prize. Discover them by clicking here.
The 2018 selection:
Cécile Balavoine, Maestro, Mercure de France
Stéphanie Kalfon, Les parapluies d'Erik Satie, Joëlle Losfeld Editions
Akira Mizubayashi, Un amour de mille-ans, Gallimard
Pascal Quignard, Dans ce jardin qu'on aimait, Grasset
Eric Reinhardt, La chambre des époux, Gallimard
Alexandre Tharaud, Show me your hands, Grasset
The members of the jury
The winning authors since the creation of Books & Music :
2017 : Frédérique Deghelt, Libertango, Éditions Actes Sud
2016 : Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex Vol 2, Éditions Grasset
2015: Michel Bernard, Les forêts de Ravel, Éditions La Table ronde and Gil de Célia Houdart P.O.L.
2014 : Gilles Leroy, Nina Simone, Éditions Mercure de France
2013 : Bruno Le Maire, Musique absolue: une répétition avec Carlos Kleiber, Éditions Gallimard
2012 : Stéphane Héaume, Shéridan Square, Éditions Seuil and special jury prize to Philippe and Scarlett Reliquet, Ecouter Haendel, Éditions Gallimard
2011 : Nicolas d'Estienne d'Orves, Jacques Offenbach, Éditions Actes Sud
2010 : Colette Fellous, Pour Dalida, Éditions Flammarion
2009 : Stanislas Merhar, Petits poisons, Éditions Fayard
2008 : Valentine Goby, L'échappée, Éditions Gallimard
2007 : Alain Gerber, Paul Desmond et le côté féminin du monde, Éditions Fayard
2006 : Jean Echenoz, Ravel, Éditions de Minuit
2005 : Max Genève, Le violoniste, Éditions Zulma
2004 : Maxence Firmine, Amazone, Éditions Albin Michel
