French prize-longlists

       Literary-prize season heats up in France now, too, as the two biggest prizes announced their longlists this week: the prix Renaudot on Tuesday, the prix Goncourt yesterday.
       The Renaudot doesn't even seem to have any sort of official (or unofficial) web-presence, so see, for example, the longlist at BibliObs. (And note that the jurors include Nobel laureate J.-M. G. Le Clézio, Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, and Frédéric Beigbeder.)
       The Goncourt has a pretty sad website, but at least they do keep it up-to-date, and you can find the official longlist there.
       The big shock (apparently) is that neither prize-jury seemed to care much for Emmanuel Carrère's Le Royaume (much as I like his work I can't say I'm surprised -- this sounds like a tough sell; see the P.O.L. publicity page).
       Titles that doubled up -- made both longlists -- are:

• L'Amour et les forêts by Eric Reinhardt
• Charlotte by David Foenkinos
• Constellation by Adrien Bosc
• La Femme qui dit non by Gilles Martin-Chauffier
• Meursault, contre-enquête by Kamel Daoud (now this sounds interesting; see the Actes Sud publicity page)
• Pas pleurer by Lydie Salvayre (yes !)
• Le Roi disait que j’étais le diable by Clara Dupont-Monod

       That's quite a few .....
       Also good to see: Amélie Nothomb's Pétronille made the first Renaudot cut.
       And remember that the Goncourt actually is a four-step prize: longest-list (announced yesterday), longlist (7 October), shortlist (October 28), winner (5 November).