Philippe Vasset Wins the 2026 Prix Médicis for Dans les grandes lignes
Philippe Vasset's walk under France's high-voltage lines won the Médicis by five votes to four. Eva Baltasar and Jean-Baptiste Del Amo took the foreign novel and essay prizes.
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French literary prize founded in 1958, with novel, foreign novel and essay categories. Official site: prixmedicis.com
Sébastien Lapaque Wins the Académie Française's 2026 Grand Prix du Roman
Lapaque's Le Rappel des oiseaux (Actes Sud) won on the third ballot by eight votes to seven over Yannick Haenel. The prize carries €10,000.
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