Prix Emmanuel Roblès

The Prix Emmanuel Roblès, readers's prize of Blois, is a French literary award established in 1990 which aim it is to reward an author of first novel. It is baptized as a tribute to writer Emmanuel Robles.

High school students, students, librarians, booksellers, members of associations, detainees in prisons or all passionate about books, come together to work on this selection, in France and abroad. The winner of the prize is awarded a 5000 € scholarship (as of 2014) which allows him to start or continue a writing project.

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