NICE BOOK FESTIVAL 2025
30-31 MAY & 1 JUNE 2025

ALBERT 1ST GARDEN

Festival in town and free access
Find the entire program (authors, debates, readings, shows, screenings in the city) on https://lefestivaldulivredenice.com/

Placed under the direction of Franz-Olivier Giesbert, the Nice Book Festival welcomes more than 200 writers each year (novelists, essayists, poets, historians, polemicists, politicians, celebrities). It will be inaugurated on May 31 by Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Nice, President of the Nice Côte d'Azur Metropolis, Deputy President of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region.
Meetings, signings, readings, shows, animations, discoveries and debates will be on the program of this 28th edition.

NICE BAIE DES ANGES PRIZE

Sponsored and endowed by the City of Nice, the Nice Baie des Anges Prize rewards a French novel published in the twelve months preceding the Nice Book Festival. Eight novels were selected by the members of the jury chaired by Franz-Olivier Giesbert. Gathered in Nice, Romain Gary library, each of them chose a "favorite".

THE JURY'S SELECTION

• Franz-Olivier Giesbert, President of the Jury: Prisoner of the Scarlet Dream, by Andreï Makine, from the Académie française (Grasset)
• Paule Constant, from the Académie Goncourt: Your Promise, by Camille Laurens (Gallimard)
• Aurélie de Gubernatis: The ardent and very secretive Miles Franklin, by Alexandra Lapierre (Flammarion)
• Irène Frain: Mauvais étudiant, by Philippe Vilain (Robert Laffont)
• Jean-Luc Gagliolo: Up the Island, by Adrien Borne (JC Lattès)
• Nicolas Galup: Day of Surf, by Maylis de Kerangal (Verticales)
• Laurent Seksik : The Masters of Time, by Stéphanie JANICOT (Albin Michel)
• Didier van Cauwelaert: A Cry in the Ocean, by Benoît d'Halluin (XO)
• A popular jury of ten readers, lovers of books and words, is also involved in the deliberations.

The prize will be awarded to the winner on Wednesday 7 May and then presented on Friday 30 May by Christian ESTROSI, Mayor of Nice, President of the Nice Côte d'Azur Metropolis, Deputy President of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region, during an official ceremony at the opening of the 29th edition of the Nice Book Festival which will be held on 30, 31 May and 01 June.

Since its creation in 1996, on the initiative of the City of Nice, this literary prize has crowned novelists:

1996 – Patrick RENAUDOT CX (Editions du Rocher). 1997 – Raoul MILLE Le paradis des tempêtes (Albin Michel).1998 – Franz- Olivier GIESBERT Le sieur Dieu (Grasset). 1999 – Gérard de CORTANZE, Les vice-rois, ( Actes Sud). 2000 – Claude IMBERT , The Tomb of Aurélien (Grasset). 2001 – Jean-Noël PANCRAZI Renée Camps (Gallimard). 2002 – Paula JACQUES Gilda Stambouli suffers and complains (Mercure de France). 2003 – Vénus KHOURY-GHATA The Monk, the Ottoman and the Wife of the Grand Argentier (Actes Sud). 2004 – Richard MILLET, My Life Among the Shadows (Gallimard). 2005 – Eric FOTTORINO Korsakov (Gallimard). 2006 – Jean-Paul ENTHOVEN, The Last Woman (Grasset). 2007 – Didier van CAUWELAERT, The Adopted Father (Albin Michel). 2008 – Saphia AZZEDINE, Confidences à Allah (Léo Scheer) and René FREGNI, Tu tomberas avec la nuit (Gallimard). 2009 – Daniel CORDIER alias Caracalla (Gallimard). 2010 – Laurent SEKSIK, The Last Days of Stefan Zweig (Flammarion). 2011 – Aurélie HUSTIN de GUBERNATIS The Guardians of Time (Plon). 2012 – Romain SLOCOMBE, Monsieur le Commandant (Nil). 2013 – Valérie TONG CUONG, L'Atelier des miracles (JC Lattès). 2014 – Sylvain TESSON , S'abandon à vivre (Gallimard).