Since 2006, the literary prize “Gens de Mer” has been awarded as part of the Amazing Travelers Festival in Saint-Malo. This prize rewards a popular maritime work, whether it is a novel, an essay, a graphic book, poetry … which will succeed Yan Lespoux, winner in 2024 for his adventure novel “To die the world”? Six pounds are still in competition.
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Loïc Josse and maritime literature, it’s a story that has been going on for over 50 years. The author and the former bookseller, creator of the famous Marine drugstore in Saint-Malo, has always considered sea stories as a full-fledged literature. As a child, it is said in his biography that he listened to his grandmother to read him with attention “the children of Captain Grant”. He has kept this initiation to reading a pronounced taste for adventure stories, and if they happen in the vast ocean, it’s even better.
Met on the occasion of the press conference of the amazing traveler festival, Loïc Josse delivered to us exclusively the names and titles of the six finalist works of the Prix des Gens de Mer – Littoral -Ii Bretagne, a literary prize of which he has been the secretary for several years.
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The six books selected for the last Tour of the Prix Gens de Mer – Littoral -ici Bretagne are:
• A story of Cap Hornby Patrick Benoîton at Glénat.
• Somewhere in meR, de Dörte Hansen – Stock
• Darwin, the last chapterby Michel Moatti – Hervé Chopin
• Swellde ioànna karystiàni – quidam editions
• Only the horizonthey matt riordan – paulsen
• History of MeR, Alessandro Vanoli – Past/compound
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When asked to summarize the trends in current maritime literature and give us some adjectives that could symbolize the selection of this seafare price, Loïc Josse mainly retains the density of works that could be published in 2024 and 2025 in connection with the sea: “If today, publishers specializing in the Maritime are less and less present, the ocean appears in a much more important work of work. That we are talking about novel, thriller, philosophical essay, investigation … He is at the center of many titles”.
In the history of the price, there are periods of dead water and lively waters. We are on an excellent vintage in 2025.
Loïc JoseSecretary of seafarers’ prize – Littoral -ici Bretagne
The name of the winner or winner of the Sea-Littoral-ii-Bretagne prize will be unveiled on Friday May 16. This award will be awarded during the amazing Saint-Malo travelers festival on June 7. Note that during this 35ᵉ edition of the book and films festival, the sea will be honored and questioned in many meetings in Saint-Malo on the occasion of “The year of the sea”, a national initiative aimed at highlighting wealth and crucial issues around the maritime domain in France.
