The Dames du Femina met on Tuesday, September 12 at La Closerie des Lilas, the famous Parisian brasserie. They announced to the professional magazine Livres Hebdo their first selections in the category "French novels" and "foreign novels".
To discover
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Who will succeed Claudie Hunzinger (French novel), Rachel Cusk (foreign novel) and Annette Wieviorka (essay), winners of the 2022 Femina Prize?
Verdict on November 6, after the second and third selections.
French novels:
· Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Watch over her - The Iconoclast
· Nathacha Appanah, The Faded Memory - Mercury of France
· Pierrick Bailly, La Foudre - POL
· Dominique Barbéris, Une manière d'aimer - Gallimard
· Guy Bolley, A ma soeur et unique - Grasset
· Eric Chacour, What I Know About You - Philippe Rey
· Sarah Chiche, Les Alchimies - Seuil
· Benoit Coquil, Little Things - Shores
· Franck Courtes, A pied d'oeuvre - Gallimard
· Agnès Desarthe, Le château des rentiers - L'Olivier
· Lionel Duroy, Mes pas dans leurs ombres - Mialet-Barrault
· Dominique Fabre, Gare Saint Lazare - Fayard
· Agnès Matthieu-Daudet, Sandmen - Flammarion
· Alice Renard, La Colère et l'envie - Héloïse d'Ormesson
· Neige Sinno, Sad Tiger - POL
· Lyonel Trouillot, Veilleuses du calvaire - Actes Sud
Foreign novels:
· Nina Allan, Conquest - Tristram
· Hila Blum, How to Love Your Daughter - Robert Laffont
· Emma Cline, The Guest - The Round Table
· Tom Crewe, La Vie nouvelle - Christian Bourgois
· Hernan Diaz, Trust - The Olive Tree
· Louise Erdrich, La Sentance - Albin Michel
· Lucy Fricke, the diplomat - Le Quartanier
· Paolo Giordano, Tasmania - The Noise of the World
· Mikolaj Grynberg, I would like to ask their forgiveness, but they are no longer here - Actes Sud
· Aleksandar Hemon, A World of Heaven and Earth - Calmann-Lévy
· Lidia Jorge, Misericordia - Metelier
· Han Kang, Impossibles adieux - Grasset
· Joyce Maynard, L'Hotel des oiseaux - Philippe Rey
· Patricia Melo, Those who have killed - Buchet-Chastel
· Maggy O'Farrell, The Wedding Portrait - Belfond
· Cécile Pin, Les âmes errantes - Stock
· Robert Seethaler, The Café Without a Name - Sabine Wespieser