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Prix Femina

The Prix Femina committee in 1926.

The Prix Femina[1] is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine La Vie heureuse (today known as Femina). The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury. They reward French-language works written in prose or verse, by both women and men. The winner is announced on the first Wednesday of November each year.

Prix Femina–Vie Heureuse

After the Great War, in 1919 Librairie Hachette proposed to the allied countries to create a similar prize. Great Britain accepted, and the first meeting of its jury was held on 20 June 1920. The prize was called the Prix Femina–Vie Heureuse, and it was awarded to English writers, from 1920 to 1939. Among the winners were E. M. Forster in 1925 and Virginia Woolf in 1928.

Similarly, in 1920 Lady Northcliffe, wife of Alfred Harmsworth, proposed to create a prize for French writers called the Northcliffe prize. Among the winners were Joseph Kessel in 1924, Julien Green in 1928, and Jean Giono in 1931. The last meeting of the jury for this prize was held on 10 April 1940, before the Nazis occupied France during World War II.

The archives of the English Committee are held by Cambridge University Library.[2]

Jury

As of June 2021, the jury of the Femina consists of eleven female members:[3]

List of winners

There are currently four categories: Prix Femina, Prix Femina essai, Prix Femina étranger (foreign novels), and Prix Femina des lycéens.

Prix Femina

Prix Femina étranger

Prix Femina essai

Prix Femina des lycéens

Femina–Vie Heureuse

The following awards were made during the lifetime of the award.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ The Prix Femina is sometimes spelled Prix Fémina, but it is officially spelled without an accent, even in French.
  2. ^ a b "Femina Vie Heureuse Prize: English Committee: Minutes and papers". The National Archives.
  3. ^ "Trois romancières rejoignent le jury du Prix Femina". LEFIGARO (in French). 2 June 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  4. ^ "US writer Julie Otsuka wins Femina foreign novel prize". France24. 6 November 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
  5. ^ "US author wins top French literary prize". France24. 6 November 2013. Archived from the original on 9 November 2013. Retrieved 8 November 2013.
  6. ^ "L'Haïtienne Yanick Lahens, prix Femina pour le roman "Bain de Lune"". France24. 3 November 2014. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  7. ^ "Christophe Boltanski, Kerry Hudson et Emmanuelle Loyer lauréats du Femina 2015". livreshebdo.fr. 11 November 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  8. ^ "Le Femina 2016 pour Marcus Malte, Rabih Alameddine et Ghislaine Dunant". livreshebdo.fr. 25 October 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  9. ^ "Le Femina couronne "le justicier" Philippe Jaenada pour "La serpe"". Yahoo! News. 8 November 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  10. ^ Jean Birnbaum (5 November 2018). "Le prix Femina pour Philippe Lançon et son livre " Le Lambeau "". Le Monde. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  11. ^ "Serge Joncour remporte le Femina 2020". Livres Hebdo (in French). Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  12. ^ "Le prix Femina 2021 du roman français décerné à Clara Dupont-Monod". Le Monde (in French). 25 October 2021. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  13. ^ Dupuy, Éric (7 November 2022). "Claudie Hunzinger, Rachel Cusk et Annette Wieviorka primées au Femina 2022". Livres Hebdo (in French). Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  14. ^ Gabinari, Pauline (6 December 2021). "Ananda Devi, lauréate du Femina des lycéens 2021". Livres Hebdo (in French). Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  15. ^ Laila Maalouf, "Éric Chacour remporte le Femina des lycéens". La Presse, November 28, 2023.

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