For the 25th consecutive year, the Goncourt Prize for High School Students offers around fifty classes the opportunity to connect the appropriation of the French language and literature with the pleasure of reading and current literature.
Led by the Ministry of National Education, Youth, and Community Life, and the “Bruit de Lire” association tasked with coordinating the action, in partnership with Fnac, the prize will take place from September to November 2012.
This is the second year a class from Parc Impérial has been selected, the first literary one, guided by Professors Couston and Madame Gnutti.
Starting this Thursday, September 20, students will begin reading the novels. For the occasion, a book handover ceremony will be held at 4:30 PM.
The first key competence of the common curriculum of knowledge and skills, mastery of the French language is at the heart of the Republic’s School’s missions.
The Goncourt Prize for High School Students was created in 1988 by Fnac in collaboration with the Rennes Education Authority and with the kind attention of the Goncourt Academy. It has gained the prestige of a true literary award over the years, becoming an essential event of the literary season.
The jury is composed of high school students aged 15 to 18 who read a dozen novels in two months from the official selection of the Goncourt Academy under the supervision of their literature teacher.
The Goncourt Prize for High School Students offers the public a choice defended with commitment and passion by young readers based on the selection of novels made in September by the Goncourt Academy.
Fifty-two classes of high school students aged 15 to 18, from sophomore, junior, senior, or BTS levels, whether general, scientific, or technical, read and study in two months, with the help of their teachers and the Bruit de Lire Association, the dozen novels from the Academy’s start-of-year selection.
Fnac provides all the books at the start of the school year. The classes and their teachers are then invited to meet the selected authors.
At the end of this marathon involving reading, reviews, and debates, the first phase of voting takes place (each region choosing its representatives and its top three winning books), followed by the final in Rennes, the birthplace of the Prize, in the presence of the representatives from the Goncourt Academy.
