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The Renaudot Prize was created in 1926 by journalists and is chaired this year by Frédéric Beigbeder.
The Renaudot jurors, at Drouant, awarded their prize this Tuesday to François-Henri Désérable by six votes to four to David Djaiz.
As for the Renaudot pocket prize, it is unanimously awarded to Jean-Christophe Buisson for Complètement à l’Est!, published by Perrin. The deputy director of Figaro Magazine, historian and great reporter, brings together around forty of his best texts, “stories, meetings, reports”, given from 1996 to 2026 in Le Figaro and Perrin. There we find historical portraits, from Molotov to Alexander II of Serbia, major reports from Belgrade to the Kremlin, including the strong tropism of the travel writer for Armenia.
Let us remember that the Renaudot Prize was born in 1926, a hundred years ago, from the stamping of ten journalists standing around waiting for the deliberation at Drouant. It is chaired this year by Frédéric Beigbeder. In addition to its president, the jury is made up of Mohammed Aïssaoui, Dominique Bona, Patrick Besson, Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud (general secretary), Franz-Olivier Giesbert, Cécile Guilbert, Stéphanie Janicot, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio and Jean-Noël Pancrazi.

Philippe Jaenada won the 2026 Goncourt Prize for his novel L’inconnue du quai de Javel, announced by Philippe Claudel at the Drouant restaurant in Paris.

The Académie Goncourt jury is preparing to designate the 2026 winner from among four finalists published by the Madrigall group, in a context marked by the controversy surrounding artificial intelligence.

On the occasion of its 80th anniversary, the CNC is the subject of an assessment retracing its central role in supporting French cinema and audiovisual, between historical resistance to Hollywood, model of solidarity and new challenges linked to platforms.

In China, artificial intelligence is shaking up the audiovisual industry. Influencers are having their faces stolen for AI-generated series, while traditional film shoots are becoming empty and new image rental models are emerging.

The French publisher Gallimard is making its return to the Algiers International Book Fair after two years of exclusion following the controversy over the novel “Houris” by Kamel Daoud, at the heart of legal proceedings.

The writer and journalist Sébastien Lapaque is in the spotlight for his work “The Rappel of the Birds”. Portrait of an eclectic author, passionate about Bernanos, Zweig and French culture, whose literary journey spans novels, essays and notebooks.