The Femina Prize for the French Novel opens the fall literary prize ball!
It was given this Monday to Clara Dupont-Monod for "To adapt" (to the editions Stock), while the price of the foreign novel went to the Turk Ahmet Altan.
The Prix Femina 2021 is awarded to “Adapt” by Clara Dupont-Monod!
Fit: https://t.co/KALoET8xAG#prixfemina pic.twitter.com/y6H0SdkYo2
- Stock Editions (@EditionsStock) October 25, 2021
Meeting at the Carnavalet museum in Paris, the exclusively female jury chose this winner in the eighth round, with six votes, against five for Thomas B. Reverdy for “Climax” (Flammarion).
48-year-old editor and journalist Clara Dupont-Monod won the Landerneau Readers' Prize for this fiction on the arrival of a disabled child to siblings.
This prize is the first of the major literary awards in the fall, before the Medici on Tuesday, the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française on Thursday, and the Goncourt and Renaudot awards on November 3.
Ahmet Altan crowned for "Madame Hayat"
The Femina Prize for Foreign Novels went to Ahmet Altan, for “Madame Hayat” (Actes Sud).
This novel was written in prison and has not yet appeared in its original language.
It was in the first round that he won.
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Congratulations to Ahmet Altan, winner of the Foreign Femina Prize 2021 for his novel ** Madame Hayat **!
👉 More info on this novel translated from Turkish by Julien Lapeyre de Cabanes: https://t.co/v7yjWsjkfH pic.twitter.com/PKYqeSlAJa
- Actes Sud (@ActesSud) October 25, 2021
Finally, the prize for the essay was awarded to Annie Cohen-Solal for "A foreigner named Picasso" (Fayard), which tells how the Spanish master never acquired French nationality.
