Armenia becomes 39th country to host Goncourt selections

ArmInfo.At the initiative of the French Institute of Armenia and the French University in Armenia, in partnership with the Newmag publishing house, and with the support of the University Agency of Francophonie (AUF), Armenia has become the 39th country to host the Goncourt selections.

In this regard, Francois Rossino, the chief delegate of the Goncourt  Academy and Pascal Bruckner, a renowned writer and member of the  French Goncourt jury, have arrived in Yerevan.  As ArmInfo was  informed by the French Embassy in Armenia, the Armenian selection for  the Goncourt Award will begin on October 12 at 12:00 local time, as  part of Franconfest (Franconfest).  For this first selection, a jury  consisting of 31 students from the French Literature Department at  the French University in Armenia, as well as from the Yerevan State  University and V. Bryusov State University, will choose from 8 works  published by the Goncourt Academy on October 1, 2024.

The jury's vote and the announcement of the winner of the Goncourt  Armenian selection will be the most important event of the  Francophonie Days scheduled for March-April 2025. The selected work  will be translated into Armenian and published by Newmag. The  presentation of the book will take place in October 2025 as part of  Francofest, and the author will be invited to Armenia.

This initiative will be ongoing and will feature an award in the  Armenian literary and publishing field for contemporary  French-language literature. The winning work will be translated into  Armenian and published. The establishment of an Armenian selection  for the Goncourt Award is a new initiative under the Publication  Support Program of the French Institute of Armenia, which assists  publishers in translating and publishing French literary works in  Armenian.