Are literary prizes generally indicators of quality?

At the start of each new literary season, book awards become a must for readers. Banners in the window, covers in the media, sales on the rise... But are these distinctions in principle a guarantee of quality?

Book reviewer at Regard Libre

Yes. While the jurors of the major prizes are sometimes criticized for acting more out of co-optation than literary sensibility, the accusation cannot be generalized. Some juries are made up entirely of people from outside the literary world, who meet for the sole pleasure of discussing their reading affinities, often for the first time. This is the case for the Goncourt des lycéens, the Prix du public RTS, the Prix du roman Fnac and various publishing house readers' prizes (Le Livre de Poche or Points, to name but a few). In this case, a