Outsiders Triumph at 2026 Prix Médicis
Defying expectations, the 2026 Prix Médicis jury awarded French novelist Philippe Vasset, foreign novelist Eva Baltasar, a special prize to critic Richard Zenith and essay prize to Jean‑Baptiste Del Amo.
Defying expectations, the 2026 Prix Médicis jury awarded French novelist Philippe Vasset, foreign novelist Eva Baltasar, a special prize to critic Richard Zenith and essay prize to Jean‑Baptiste Del Amo.
Philippe Vasset was presented with the 2026 Prix Médicis on 2 November at Paris’s La Méditerranée restaurant for his novel Dans les grandes lignes, published by Flammarion.