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Prix Femina

French literary prize decided by female jury

Summary

French literary prize decided by female jury

The Prix Femina is a French literary prize awarded each year by an exclusively female jury. The prize, which was established in 1904, is awarded to French-language works written in prose or verse by male or female writers, and is announced on the first Wednesday of November each year. Four categories of prizes are awarded: Prix Femina, Prix Femina essai, Prix Femina étranger (foreign novels), and Prix Femina des lycéens. A Prix Femina spécial is occasionally awarded.

History

The Prix Femina was created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine La Vie heureuse, which later merged into the magazine Femina, which ceased publication in 1954.

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.

Jury

, the jury of the Femina consisted of eleven female members:

Josyane Savigneau (president)
Evelyne Bloch-Dano
Claire Gallois
Anne-Marie Garat
Paula Jacques
Christine Jordis
Mona Ozouf
Danièle Sallenave
Nathalie Azoulai
Scholastique Mukasonga
Patricia Reznikov

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

Year	Title	Author	Notes
1904	[[File:Myriam Harry 1904.jpg	40px]]	La Conquête de Jérusalem	Myriam Harry
1905	[[File:Romain Rolland de face au balcon, Meurisse, 1914 retouche.jpg	40px]]	Jean-Christophe	Romain Rolland
1906	[[File:Andre Corthis picture.png	40px]]	Gemmes et moires	André Corthis
1907	[[File:Colette Yver.jpg	40px]]	Princesses de science	Colette Yver
1908	[[File:Édouard Estaunié 1923.jpg	40px]]	La Vie secrète	Édouard Estaunié
1909	[[File:Edmond Jaloux, "L'Ouest-Éclair", 1936.jpg	40px]]	Le reste est silence	Edmond Jaloux
1910	[[File:Marguerite Audoux - Project Gutenberg etext 20572.jpg	40px]]	Marie-Claire	Marguerite Audoux
1911	[[File:Louis de Robert redux.jpg	40px]]	Le Roman du malade	Louis de Robert
1912		Feuilles mortes	Jacques Morel
1913	[[File:Camille Marbo 1937 Meurisse.jpg	40px]]	La Statue voilée	Camille Marbo
1914		no winner
1915		no winner
1916		no winner
1917		L'Odyssée d'un transport torpillé	René Milan
1918	[[File:Henri Bachelin.jpg	40px]]	Le Serviteur	Henri Bachelin
1919	[[File:Roland Dorgelès b Meurisse 1923.jpg	40px]]	Les Croix de bois	Roland Dorgelès
1920		Le Jardin des Dieux	Edmond Gojon
1921	[[File:Raymond Escholier 1923.jpg	40px]]	Cantegril	Raymond Escholier
1922	[[File:Jacques de Lacretelle.jpg	40px]]	Silbermann	Jacques de Lacretelle
1923	[[File:Photographie de Jeanne Galzy publiée dans le journal La Vie montpelliéraine en 1923.png	40px]]	Les Allongés	Jeanne Galzy
1924		Le Bestiaire sentimental	Charles Derennes
1925	[[File:Joseph Delteil croped (Agence Rol).jpg	40px]]	Jeanne d'Arc	Joseph Delteil
1926	[[File:CharlesSilvestre.jpg	40px]]	Prodige du cœur	Charles Silvestre
1927	[[File:Marie Le Franc redux.jpg	40px]]	Grand-Louis l'innocent	Marie Le Franc
1928	[[File:Mme Dominique Dunois.jpg	40px]]	Georgette Garou	Dominique Dunois
1929	[[File:Georges-Bernanos.jpg	40px]]	La Joie	Georges Bernanos
1930		Cécile de la Folie	Marc Chadourne
1931	[[File:Saint-Exupéry 4.png	40px]]	Vol de nuit	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1932	[[File:Ramon Fernandez 1932.jpg	40px]]	Le Pari	Ramon Fernandez
1933	[[File:Geneviève Fauconnier.jpg	40px]]	Claude	Geneviève Fauconnier
1934		Le Bateau-refuge	Robert Francis
1935	[[File:Claude Silve redux.jpg	40px]]	Bénédiction	Claude Silve
1936	[[File:Louise Hervieu redux.jpg	40px]]	Sangs	Louise Hervieu
1937		Campagne	Raymonde Vincent
1938		Caroline ou le Départ pour les îles	Félix de Chazournes
1939	[[File:Vialar Harcourt 1948.jpg	40px]]	La Rose de la mer	Paul Vialar
1940		no winner
1941		no winner
1942		no winner
1943		no winner
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	[[File:Gabrielle Roy 1945 140x190.jpg	40px]]	Bonheur d'occasion	Gabrielle Roy
1948		Les Hauteurs de la ville	Emmanuel Roblès
1949		La Dame de cœur	Maria Le Hardouin
1950		La Femme sans passé	Serge Groussard
1951	[[File:Ouest-Eclair - 27 novembre 1943 - Anne de Tourville.jpg	40px]]	Jabadao	Anne de Tourville
1952	[[File:Dominique Rolin redux.jpg	40px]]	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	[[File:Françoise Mallet-Joris redux.jpg	40px]]	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	[[File:Marguerite Yourcenar redux.jpg	40px]]	L'Oeuvre au noir (The Abyss)	Marguerite Yourcenar
1969		La Deuxième Mort de Ramón Mercader	Jorge Semprún
1970		La Crève	François Nourissier
1971	[[File:Angelo Rinaldi Academie.jpg	40px]]	La Maison des Atlandes	Angelo Rinaldi
1972	[[File:Roger Grenier redux.jpg	40px]]	Ciné-roman	Roger Grenier
1973		Juan Maldonne	Michel Dard
1974	[[File:René-Victor Pilhes redux.jpg	40px]]	L'Imprécateur	René-Victor Pilhes
1975		Le Maître d'heure	Claude Faraggi
1976		Le Trajet	Marie-Louise Haumont
1977	[[File:Regis Debray.jpg	40px]]	La neige brûle	Régis Debray
1978		Un amour de père	François Sonkin
1979		Le Guetteur d'ombre	Pierre Moinot
1980	[[File:Jocelyne Francois.jpg	40px]]	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	[[File:Florence Delay redux.jpg	40px]]	Riche et légère	Florence Delay
1984		Tous les soleils	Bertrand Visage
1985	[[File:Hector Bianciotti redux.jpg	40px]]	Sans la miséricorde du Christ	Hector Bianciotti
1986		L'Enfer	René Belletto
1987		L'Égal à Dieu (God's Equal)	Alain Absire
1988	[[File:Alexandre Jardin 2013 crop.jpg	40px]]	Le Zèbre (The Zebra)	Alexandre Jardin
1989	[[File:Sylvie Germain (2019).png	40px]]	Jours de colère	Sylvie Germain
1990	[[File:Pierrette Fleutiaux (2013).png	40px]]	Nous sommes éternels	Pierrette Fleutiaux
1991	[[File:Paula Jacques redux.jpg	40px]]	Déborah et les anges dissipés	Paula Jacques
1992	[[File:Anne-Marie Garat-Festival international de géographie 2011.jpg	40px]]	Aden	Anne-Marie Garat
1993	[[File:Marc Lambron (2017).png	40px]]	L'Oeil du silence	Marc Lambron
1994		Port-Soudan	Olivier Rolin
1995	[[File:Emmanuel Carrère redux.jpg	40px]]	La Classe de neige (Class Trip)	Emmanuel Carrère
1996	[[File:Geneviève Brisac - Atlantide 2017.jpg	40px]]	Week-end de chasse à la mère	Geneviève Brisac
1997		Amour noir	Dominique Noguez
1998	[[File:François Cheng.jpg	40px]]	Le Dit de Tianyi (The River Below)	François Cheng
1999	[[File:Maryline Desbiolles (2015).png	40px]]	Anchise	Maryline Desbiolles
2000	[[File:Rencontre avec Camille Laurens.jpg	40px]]	Dans ces bras-là (In His Arms)	Camille Laurens
2001	[[File:Marie NDiaye redux.jpg	40px]]	Rosie Carpe	Marie Ndiaye
2002	[[File:Chantal Thomas LSlaP 100818 (cropped).jpg	40px]]	Les adieux à la reine (Farewell, My Queen)	Chantal Thomas
2003	[[File:Dai Sijie redux.jpg	40px]]	Le complexe de Di (Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch)	Dai Sijie
2004	[[File:Jean-Paul Dubois (2016) - 2.png	40px]]	Une vie française (Vie Francaise)	Jean-Paul Dubois
2005		Asile de fous	Régis Jauffret
2006	[[File:Nancy Huston redux.jpg	40px]]	Lignes de faille (Fault Lines)	Nancy Huston
2007	[[File:Éric Fottorino.JPG	40px]]	Baisers de cinéma	Eric Fottorino
2008	[[File:Jean-Louis Fournier redux.png	40px]]	Où on va, papa?	Jean-Louis Fournier
2009	[[File:Gwenaëlle Aubry (2018).jpg	40px]]	Personne	Gwenaëlle Aubry
2010		La vie est brève et le désir sans fin	Patrick Lapeyre
2011	[[File:Simon Liberati (2015).png	40px]]	Jayne Mansfield 1967	Simon Liberati
url=http://www.france24.com/en/20121105-us-writer-julie-otsuka-wins-prix-femina-foreign-novel-prize-patrick-deville-france	title=US writer Julie Otsuka wins Femina foreign novel prize	work=France24	date=6 November 2012	access-date=6 November 2012}}	[[File:Patrick Deville redux.jpg	40px]]	Peste & Choléra	Patrick Deville
url=http://www.france24.com/en/20131106-us-author-wins-top-french-literary-prize	title=US author wins top French literary prize	work=France24	date=6 November 2013	access-date=8 November 2013	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109173735/http://www.france24.com/en/20131106-us-author-wins-top-french-literary-prize	archive-date=9 November 2013	url-status=dead }}	[[File:Leonora Miano redux.jpg	40px]]	La Saison de l’ombre	Léonora Miano
url=http://www.france24.com/fr/20141103-prix-femina-haitienne-yanick-lahens-roman-bain-lune-culture-litterature-france/	title=L'Haïtienne Yanick Lahens, prix Femina pour le roman "Bain de Lune"	work=France24	date=3 November 2014	access-date=23 October 2015	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924142233/http://www.france24.com/fr/20141103-prix-femina-haitienne-yanick-lahens-roman-bain-lune-culture-litterature-france/	archive-date=24 September 2015	url-status=dead }}	[[File:Yanick Lahens.jpg	40px]]	Bain de lune	Yanick Lahens
url=http://www.livreshebdo.fr/article/christophe-boltanski-kerry-hudson-et-emmanuelle-loyer-laureats-du-femina-2015	title=Christophe Boltanski, Kerry Hudson et Emmanuelle Loyer lauréats du Femina 2015	work=livreshebdo.fr	date=11 November 2015	access-date=7 November 2015}}	[[File:ChristopheBoltanskiLM2015.jpg	40px]]	La Cache	Christophe Boltanski
url=http://www.livreshebdo.fr/article/le-femina-2016-pour-marcus-malte-rabih-alameddine-et-ghislaine-dunant	title=Le Femina 2016 pour Marcus Malte, Rabih Alameddine et Ghislaine Dunant	work=livreshebdo.fr	date=25 October 2016	access-date=26 October 2016}}	[[File:Marcus Malte 09364.JPG	40px]]	Le Garçon	Marcus Malte
url=http://www.france24.com/fr/20171108-le-femina-couronne-le-justicier-philippe-jaenada-serpe	title=Le Femina couronne "le justicier" Philippe Jaenada pour "La serpe"	work=Yahoo! News	date=8 November 2017	access-date=8 November 2017}}	[[File:Philippe Jaenada redux.jpg	40px]]	La Serpe	Philippe Jaenada
2018		Le Lambeau (Disturbance: Surviving Charlie Hebdo)	Philippe Lançon
2019	[[File:Sylvain Prudhomme redux.jpg	40px]]	Par les routes	Sylvain Prudhomme
2020	[[File:Serge Joncour redux.jpg	40px]]	Nature humaine	Serge Joncour
2021	[[File:Clara dupont monod LSlaP 68847 (cropped).jpg	40px]]	S'adapter	Clara Dupont-Monod
2022	[[File:43 claudia hunziger03 (2).jpg	40px]]	Un chien à ma table	Claudie Hunzinger
2023	[[File:Neige Sinno, 2024-1.jpg	40px]]	Triste Tigre (Sad Tiger)	Neige Sinno
2024	[[File:Miguel Bonnefoy (2019).jpg	40px]]	Le rêve du jaguar	Miguel Bonnefoy

Prix Femina étranger

Main article: Prix Femina étranger

The Prix Femina étranger is awarded annually to a foreign-language literary work translated into French.

Prix Femina essai

Main article: Prix Femina essai

The Prix Femina essai, established in 1999, is awarded to an essay. It replaced the Prix Hélène Vacaresco.

Prix Femina spécial

The has been awarded to several writers, for the entirety of their work.

In 2017, anthropologist and essayist Françoise Héritier was awarded a Prix Femina spécial.

Pierre Guyotat was awarded the prize in 2018.

In 2019, the Prix Femina spécial was awarded to Irish novelist Edna O'Brien, following the publication of her last novel, Girl, which had been shortlisted for the Prix Femina étranger. The prize was awarded in honour of her whole body of work, and it was the first time a non-French author had won it.

Prix Femina des lycéens

Year	Title	Author
2016	[[File:Nathacha Appanah (2021) - 2.png	40px]]	Tropique de la violence
2017	[[File:Fnac Forum 2017 (37284503615).jpg	40px]]	Ma reine
2018	[[File:Isabelle Desesquelle.jpg	40px]]	Je voudrais que la nuit me prenne
2019	[[File:Victor Jestin (2019).png	40px]]	La Chaleur
2020	[[File:Laurent Petitmangin (2020).png	40px]]	Ce qu'il faut de nuit
2021	[[File:Photo of Mauritian Writer Ananda Devi (cropped).jpg	40px]]	Le rire des déesses
2022		Tenir sa langue
2023		Ce que je sais de toi

Femina–Vie Heureuse

The following awards were made during the lifetime of the award.

Year	Title	Author
1920	William - an Englishman	Cicely Hamilton
1921	The Splendid Fairing	Constance Holme
1922	Dangerous Ages	Rose Macaulay
1923	Gruach	Gordon Bottomley
1924	Roman Pictures	Percy Lubbock
1925	A Passage to India	E. M. Forster
1926	Precious Bane	Mary Webb
1927	Adam's Breed	Radclyffe Hall
1928	To the Lighthouse	Virginia Woolf
1929	Gallion's Reach	H. M. Tomlinson
1930	Portrait in a Mirror	Charles Morgan
1931	A High Wind in Jamaica	Richard Hughes
1932	Tobit Transplanted	Stella Benson
1933	Small Town	Bradda Field
1934	Cold Comfort Farm	Stella Gibbons
1935	Harriet	Elizabeth Jenkins
1936	The Root and the Flower	L. H. Myers
1937	Faith, Hope, no Charity	Margaret Lane
1938	The Porch	Richard Church
1939	Count Belisarius	Robert Graves

Footnotes

References

"Femina Vie Heureuse Prize: English Committee: Minutes and papers".
(2 June 2021). "Trois romancières rejoignent le jury du Prix Femina".
(6 November 2012). "US writer Julie Otsuka wins Femina foreign novel prize". France24.
(6 November 2013). "US author wins top French literary prize". France24.
(3 November 2014). "L'Haïtienne Yanick Lahens, prix Femina pour le roman "Bain de Lune"". France24.
(11 November 2015). "Christophe Boltanski, Kerry Hudson et Emmanuelle Loyer lauréats du Femina 2015". livreshebdo.fr.
(25 October 2016). "Le Femina 2016 pour Marcus Malte, Rabih Alameddine et Ghislaine Dunant". livreshebdo.fr.
(8 November 2017). "Le Femina couronne "le justicier" Philippe Jaenada pour "La serpe"". Yahoo! News.
Jean Birnbaum. (5 November 2018). "Le prix Femina pour Philippe Lançon et son livre " Le Lambeau "". Le Monde.
"Serge Joncour remporte le Femina 2020".
(25 October 2021). "Le prix Femina 2021 du roman français décerné à Clara Dupont-Monod". Le Monde.
Dupuy, Éric. (7 November 2022). "Claudie Hunzinger, Rachel Cusk et Annette Wieviorka primées au Femina 2022". Livres Hebdo.
(3 February 2011). "Prix Femina". La République des Lettres republique-des-lettres.fr.
Thomas, Vincy. (9 November 2017). "Le Femina accorde un Prix spécial à Françoise Héritier".
Faerber, Johan. (6 November 2018). "Pierre Guyotat : Idiotie, Prix Femina spécial 2018 et Prix Médicis 2018".
(5 November 2018). "Prix Femina 2018 : Elisabeth de Fontenay et Pierre Guyotat récompensés".
(5 November 2019). "Edna O'Brien wins the Prix Femina Special".
Contreras, Isabel. (5 November 2019). "Le Femina 2019 pour Sylvain Prudhomme, Manuel Vilas, Edna O'Brien et Emmanuelle Lambert".
Gabinari, Pauline. (6 December 2021). "Ananda Devi, lauréate du Femina des lycéens 2021". Livres Hebdo.
Laila Maalouf, [https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/litterature/2023-11-28/eric-chacour-remporte-le-femina-des-lyceens.php "Éric Chacour remporte le Femina des lycéens"]. ''[[La Presse (Canadian newspaper). La Presse]]'', November 28, 2023.

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