17 September 2018
French booksellers have called on literary judges to "defend books and not those who threaten them", after one of France's most prestigious prizes selected a self-published novel available only via Amazon.
Among the 17 titles in contention for this year's Prix Renaudot is Marco Koskas' Bande de Français, which was self-published on Amazon's CreateSpace platform. According to the Syndicat de la librairie française, which represents French booksellers, the jury have put them in an impossible position.