Prix Femina
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.
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Femina - Vie Heureuse Prize
After the Great War, in 1919, the Hachette Group proposed to the Allied countries to create a similar prize. Great Britain accepted, and the first meeting of its jury was held on June 20, 1920. The prize was called the Femina - Vie Heureuse Prize, and it was awarded to English writers, from 1920 to 1940. 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 April 10, 1940, before the Nazis occupied France during World War II.
The archives of the English Committee are held by Cambridge University Library.[2]
List of winners
There are four categories: Prix Femina, Prix Femina Essai, Prix Femina Étranger (foreign novels), and Prix Femina des Lycéens.
Prix Femina
| Year | Title | Author | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 | La Conquête de Jérusalem | Myriam Harry | |
| 1905 | Jean-Christophe | Romain Rolland | |
| 1906 | Gemmes et moires | André Corthis | |
| 1907 | Princesses de science | Colette Yver | |
| 1908 | La Vie secrète | Édouard Estaunié | |
| 1909 | Le reste est silence | Edmond Jaloux | |
| 1910 | Marie-Claire | Marguerite Audoux | |
| 1911 | Le Roman du malade | Louis de Robert | |
| 1912 | Feuilles mortes | Jacques Morel | |
| 1913 | La Statue voilée | Camille Marbo | |
| 1914 | no winner | N/A | |
| 1915 | no winner | N/A | |
| 1916 | no winner | N/A | |
| 1917 | L'Odyssée d'un transport torpillé | René Milan | |
| 1918 | Le Serviteur | Henri Bachelin | |
| 1919 | Les Croix de bois | Roland Dorgelès | |
| 1920 | Le Jardin des Dieux | Edmond Gojon | |
| 1921 | Cantegril | Raymond Escholier | |
| 1922 | Silbermann | Jacques de Lacretelle | |
| 1923 | Les Allongés | Jeanne Galzy | |
| 1924 | Le Bestiaire sentimental | Charles Derennes | |
| 1925 | Jeanne d'Arc | Joseph Delteil | |
| 1926 | Prodige du coeur | Charles Silvestre | |
| 1927 | Grand-Louis l'innocent | Marie Le Franc | |
| 1928 | Georgette Garou | Dominique Dunois | |
| 1929 | La Joie | Georges Bernanos | |
| 1930 | Cécile de la Folie | Marc Chadourne | |
| 1931 | Vol de nuit | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 1932 | Le Pari | Ramon Fernandez | |
| 1933 | Claude | Geneviève Fauconnier | |
| 1934 | Le Bateau-refuge | Robert Francis | |
| 1935 | Bénédiction | Claude Silve | |
| 1936 | Sangs | Louise Hervieu | |
| 1937 | Campagne | Raymonde Vincent | |
| 1938 | Caroline ou le Départ pour les îles | Félix de Chazournes | |
| 1939 | La Rose de la mer | Paul Vialar | |
| 1940 | no winner | N/A | |
| 1941 | no winner | N/A | |
| 1942 | no winner | N/A | |
| 1943 | no winner | N/A | |
| 1944 | (Special award for its French Resistance work) | Éditions de Minuit (publisher) | |
| 1945 | Le Chemin du soleil | Anne-Marie Monnet | |
| 1946 | Le Temps de la longue patience | Michel Robida | |
| 1947 | Bonheur d'occasion | Gabrielle Roy | |
| 1948 | Les Hauteurs de la ville | Emmanuel Roblès | |
| 1949 | La Dame de coeur | Maria Le Hardouin | |
| 1950 | La Femme sans passé | Serge Groussard | |
| 1951 | Jabadao | Anne de Tourville | |
| 1952 | Le Souffle | Dominique Rolin | |
| 1953 | La Pierre angulaire | Zoé Oldenbourg | |
| 1954 | La Machine humaine | Gabriel Veraldi | |
| 1955 | Le pays où l'on arrive jamais | André Dhôtel | |
| 1956 | Les Adieux | François-Régis Bastide | |
| 1957 | Le Carrefour des solitudes | Christian Mégret | |
| 1958 | L'Empire céleste (Café Céleste) | Françoise Mallet-Joris | |
| 1959 | Au pied du mur | Bernard Privat | |
| 1960 | La Porte retombée | Louise Bellocq | |
| 1961 | Le Promontoire (The Promontory) | Henri Thomas | |
| 1962 | Le Sud | Yves Berger | |
| 1963 | La Nuit de Mougins | Roger Vrigny | |
| 1964 | Le Faussaire | Jean Blanzat | |
| 1965 | Quelqu'un (Someone) | Robert Pinget | |
| 1966 | Nature morte devant la fenêtre | Irène Monesi | |
| 1967 | Élise ou la Vraie Vie | Claire Etcherelli | |
| 1968 | L'Oeuvre au noir (The Abyss) | Marguerite Yourcenar | |
| 1969 | La Deuxième Mort de Ramón Mercader | Jorge Semprún | |
| 1970 | La Crève | François Nourissier | |
| 1971 | La Maison des Atlandes | Angelo Rinaldi | |
| 1972 | Ciné-roman | Roger Grenier | |
| 1973 | Juan Maldonne | Michel Dard | |
| 1974 | L'Imprécateur | René-Victor Pilhes | |
| 1975 | Le Maître d'heure | Claude Faraggi | |
| 1976 | Le Trajet | Marie-Louise Haumont | |
| 1977 | La neige brûle | Régis Debray | |
| 1978 | Un amour de père | François Sonkin | |
| 1979 | Le Guetteur d'ombre | Pierre Moinot | |
| 1980 | Joue-nous España | Jocelyne François | |
| 1981 | Le Grand Vizir de la nuit | Catherine Hermary-Vieille | |
| 1982 | Les Fous de Bassan (In the Shadow of the Wind) | Anne Hébert | |
| 1983 | Riche et légère | Florence Delay | |
| 1984 | Tous les soleils | Bertrand Visage | |
| 1985 | Sans la miséricorde du Christ | Hector Bianciotti | |
| 1986 | L'Enfer | René Belletto | |
| 1987 | L'Égal à Dieu (God's Equal) | Alain Absire | |
| 1988 | Le Zèbre (The Zebra) | Alexandre Jardin | |
| 1989 | Jours de colère | Sylvie Germain | |
| 1990 | Nous sommes éternels | Pierrette Fleutiaux | |
| 1991 | Déborah et les anges dissipés | Paula Jacques | |
| 1992 | Aden | Anne-Marie Garat | |
| 1993 | L'Oeil du silence | Marc Lambron | |
| 1994 | Port-Soudan | Olivier Rolin | |
| 1995 | La Classe de neige (Class Trip) | Emmanuel Carrère | |
| 1996 | Week-end de chasse à la mère | Genevière Brisac | |
| 1997 | Amour noir | Dominique Noguez | |
| 1998 | Le Dit de Tianyi (The River Below) | François Cheng | |
| 1999 | Anchise | Maryline Desbiolles | |
| 2000 | Dans ces bras-là (In His Arms) | Camille Laurens | |
| 2001 | Rosie Carpe | Marie Ndiaye | |
| 2002 | Les adieux à la reine (Farewell, My Queen) | Chantal Thomas | |
| 2003 | Le complexe de Di (Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch) | Dai Sijie | |
| 2004 | Une vie française (Vie Francaise) | Jean-Paul Dubois | |
| 2005 | Asile de fous | Régis Jauffret | |
| 2006 | Lignes de faille (Fault Lines) | Nancy Huston | |
| 2007 | Baisers de cinéma | Eric Fottorino | |
| 2008 | Où on va, papa? | Jean-Louis Fournier | |
| 2009 | Personne | Gwenaëlle Aubry | |
| 2010 | La vie est brève et le désir sans fin | Patrick Lapeyre | |
| 2011 | Jayne Mansfield 1967 | Simon Liberati | |
| 2012[3] | Peste & Choléra | Patrick Deville | |
| 2013[4] | La Saison de l’ombre | Léonora Miano | |
| 2014[5] | Bain de lune | Yanick Lahens | |
| 2015[6] | La Cache | Christophe Boltanski | |
| 2016[7] | Le Garçon | Marcus Malte | |
| 2017[8] | La Serpe | Philippe Jaenada | |
| 2018[9] | Le Lambeau | Philippe Lançon | |
| 2019 | Par les routes | Sylvain Prudhomme |
Prix Femina Étranger
Prix Femina Essai
Prix Femina des Lycéens
| Year | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Tropique de la violence | Nathacha Appanah |
| 2017 | Ma reine | Jean-Baptiste Andrea |
| 2018 | Je voudrais que la nuit me prenne | Isabelle Desesquelles |
| 2019 | La Chaleur | Victor Jestin |
References
- The Prix Femina is sometimes spelled Prix Fémina, but it is officially spelled without an accent, even in French.
- National archive FEMINA VIE HEUREUSE PRIZE: ENGLISH COMMITTEE
- "US writer Julie Otsuka wins Femina foreign novel prize". France24. November 6, 2012. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
- "US author wins top French literary prize". France24. November 6, 2013. Archived from the original on November 9, 2013. Retrieved November 8, 2013.
- "L'Haïtienne Yanick Lahens, prix Femina pour le roman "Bain de Lune"". France24. November 3, 2014. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
- "Christophe Boltanski, Kerry Hudson et Emmanuelle Loyer lauréats du Femina 2015". livreshebdo.fr. November 11, 2015. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
- "Le Femina 2016 pour Marcus Malte, Rabih Alameddine et Ghislaine Dunant". livreshebdo.fr. October 25, 2016. Retrieved October 26, 2016.
- "Le Femina couronne "le justicier" Philippe Jaenada pour "La serpe"". Yahoo! News. 8 November 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
- Jean Birnbaum (5 November 2018). "Le prix Femina pour Philippe Lançon et son livre « Le Lambeau »". Le Monde. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
External links
- Prix Femina
- National archive FEMINA VIE HEUREUSE PRIZE: ENGLISH COMMITTEE archive of documents covering 1919 - 1940
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