With Louis Sarkozy among the guests and Nikos Aliagas a member of the jury for a new prize, the cast of the next Monaco International Book Fair is expanding.

Just a stone's throw from its fourteenth edition, the Monaco International Book Fair is gearing up for September 6 and 7. And the list of participants is growing.

Among the 120 invited authors, the organizing team of the Fabian Boisson Literary Meetings has just confirmed the presence of Louis Sarkozy. A visit as a neighbor for the man who is rumored to be planning to run for mayor of Menton . But the youngest son of the former President of the Republic will be in Monaco to talk about Napoleon, and the book dedicated to him, in which he evokes Bonaparte through the Emperor's readings.

But the literary fair is also a meeting place for diversity, and last year 3,400 people crowded the aisles of the Grimaldi Forum to meet authors from all walks of life. This will be the case again this year, with VIPs including statesman Hubert Vedrine; writer Jean-Paul Enthoven; academic Andreï Makina; lawyer Emmanuel Pierrat; diplomat Vladimir Fedorovski.

A literary prize with Nikos Aliagas on the jury

This will be the new feature of this fourteenth edition; this year, the team has created its literary prize, named the Pytheas Prize, after a Greek sailor. Indeed, this prize will recognize writings on the theme of travel and adventure, written or translated into French, and published between June 2024 and June 2025. The jury, chaired by forensic pathologist, archaeologist, and anthropologist and author Philippe Charlier, will deliver its verdict on September 7. Alongside the president, nine other personalities make up the jury, including broadcaster Nikos Aliagas, mountaineer Oriane Aymard, the Greek ambassador to France, Antonis Alexandridis, and the director of the Museum of Prehistoric Anthropology in Monaco, Elena Rossoni-Notter.