The announcement was shared on Wednesday.
The National Library of France presented its annual prize to Hélène Cixous, author and essayist.
Created in 2009, the sesame rewards
"a living French-speaking author for all of his work"
.
It had not been awarded in 2020, in the absence of the traditional gala dinner for the patrons of the Library due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The BnF hailed in a press release the wide range of
"this committed author, with an unclassifiable literary work"
.
"There meets the depth of a reflection, the echo of commitments in intellectual life, an intimate search in the meanders of memory, a writing of rare poetry"
, commented the president of the BnF, Laurence Engel.
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Essayist, playwright, poet and literary critic, Hélène Cixous, precursor writer of feminism, perhaps more recognized outside her country than in France, has mixed fiction, autobiography and essays in her writings.
After May 68, she was one of the founders of the University of Vincennes, where in 1974 she created the Center for Feminine Studies and Gender Studies.
The author published at the beginning of October
Rêvoir
(Éditions Gallimard), notes taken in 2020 which recount certain moments of his life, present and past, a flood of images outside all modes, while
The Book of Promethea
is republished with a new preface and interview.
Among the past winners of this prize endowed with 10,000 euros, the most recent being Virginie Despentes in 2019, there are Michel Houellebecq, Emmanuel Carrère, Mona Ozouf and Milan Kundera.
