The novels by Neige Sinno and Jean-Baptiste Andrea, already awarded the Le Monde literary prize and that of Fnac, are on the second selection for the Femina prize, the jury announced on Tuesday. Guy Boley, who won the Deux-Magots prize, is another contender.
Ten French titles and ten foreign novels were selected by the exclusively female jury. The first selection of essays includes eleven titles, including Grégoire Kauffmann’s story about his journalist father, Jean-Paul, hostage in Lebanon from 1985 to 1988. In these three categories, the Femina prize must be awarded on November 6, the day before of the Goncourt prize.
Second selection of French novels:
– Jean-Baptiste Andrea, “Watch over her” (The Iconoclast)
– Nathacha Appanah, “Washed Memory” (Mercure de France)
– Pierric Bailly, “The Lightning” (POL)
– Guy Boley, “To my sister and only” (Grasset)
– Éric Chacour, “What I know about you” (Philippe Rey)
– Sarah Chiche, “The Alchemies” (Seuil)
– Franck Courtès, “On the job” (Gallimard)
– Agnès Desarthe, “Le Château des Rentiers” (L’Olivier)
– Agnès Mathieu-Daudé, “Sand merchants” (Flammarion)
– Snow Sinno, “Sad Tiger” (POL)
Second selection of foreign novels:
– Nina Allan, “Conquest” (Tristram, Great Britain)
– Hila Blum, “How to love your daughter” (Robert Laffont, Israel)
– Emma Cline, “The Guest” (Roundtable, United States)
– Hernan Diaz, “Trust” (L’Olivier, United States)
– Louise Erdrich, “La Sentence” (Albin Michel, United States)
– Paolo Giordano, “Tasmania” (The Sound of the World, Italy)
– Lidia Jorge, “Mercy” (Métailié, Portugal)
– Han Kang, “Impossible Goodbyes” (Grasset, South Korea)
– Maggie O’Farrell, “The Wedding Portrait” (Belfond, Great Britain)
– Robert Seethaler, «Le Café sans nom» (Sabine Wespieser, Germany)
First selection of essays:
– Daniel Andler, “Artificial intelligence, human intelligence: the double enigma” (Gallimard)
– Benoît Chantre, “René Girard” (Grasset)
– Négar Djavadi, “The Last Place” (Stock)
– Hélène Frappat, “Gaslighting or the art of silencing women” (L’Observatoire)
– Grégoire Kauffmann, “The Abduction” (Flammarion)
– Sophie Képès “Disbelonging: psychology of literary creation” (Maurice Nadeau)
– Jean-Pierre Le Goff, “My Roaring Twenties” (Robert Laffont)
– Hugo Micheron, “Anger and Forgetting” (Gallimard)
– Nathalie Piégay, “3 girls: Saint-Phalle, Bourgeois, Messager” (Seuil)
– Pierre-Yves Quiviger, “A philosophy of wine” (Albin Michel)
– Perrine Simon-Nahum, “Wisdom of politics” (L’Observatoire)
