Festival of the First novel

The Festival of the First novel is a literary Festival French, being held each year since 1992 with Chambéry (Savoy).

Organizing association éponyme account 300 member-readers, a score of partners schools and about thirty places of reading in area the Rhone-Alps and two abroad.

Each year, it is a question of electing about fifteen " primoromanciers" among the hundreds of authors having published their first work, and to invite them at the time of the festival, the following year in May.

Some rewarded authors

Here a list (not-exhaustive) of some of the authors whom the Festival invited during its first 20 editions:

Olivier Adam, Christine Angot, Nathacha Appanah, Franz Bartelt, Jeanne Benameur, Arno Bertina, Philippe Besson, Yves Bichet, Jean-Philippe Blondel, Jean-Paul Carminati, Maxime Chattam, Philippe Claudel, Maurice G. Dantec, Joel Egloff, Mathias Enard, Maxence Fermine, Rene Frégni, Laurent Gaudé, Anne Goscinny, Brigitte Giraud, Philippe Grimbert, Faïza Guène, Michel Houellebecq, Xavier Houssin, Jean-Claude Izzo, Kent, Camille laurens, Laurent Mauvignier, Christophe Mileschi, Hubert Mingarelli, Amélie Nothomb, Veronique Olmi, Fred Paronuzzi, Pierre Péju, Franck Pélissier, Francoise Rey, Pascale Roze, Fabrice Vine, Martin Winckler.

External bonds

Internet site of the festival

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