On October 13, the Femina Prize jury unveiled its latest selection.
Christine Angot and Abel Quentin were excluded from this list.
The five finalists are: Clara Dupont-Monod, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Thomas B. Reverdy, Nina Bouraoui and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr.
Among the writers in the running, it should be noted that Clara Dupont-Monod and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr are still present on the second list of Goncourt.
Note that Jean-Baptiste Del Amo won the Fnac 2021 novel award.
In the foreign novel as in the essay, five titles were also selected by this exclusively female jury.
These three Femina prizes must be awarded on October 25 at the Carnavalet museum in Paris.
Novels in French:
- Nina Bouraoui, Satisfaction (JC Lattès)
- Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, The Son of Man (Gallimard)
- Clara Dupont-Monod, Adapt (Stock)
- Thomas B. Reverdy, Climax (Flammarion)
- Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, The Most Secret Memory of Men (Philippe Rey)
Foreign novels:
- Ahmet Altan, Madame Hayat (Actes Sud, Turkey)
- Jan Carson, The Fire Throwers (Sabine Wespieser, UK)
- Daniel Loedel, Hades, Argentina (La Croisée, United States)
- Joyce Maynard, Where happy people lived (Philippe Rey, United States)
- Leonardo Padura, Dust in the Wind (Métailié, Cuba)
Tests:
- Frédéric Gros, La Honte is a revolutionary feeling (Albin Michel)
- Claude Habib, The Trans Question (Gallimard)
- Arthur Lochmann, Touching Vertigo (Flammarion)
- Amos Reichman, Jacques Schiffrin, an editor in exile (Seuil)
- Perrine Simon-Nahum, Modern unreasonableness (The Observatory)
