The jurors established the final selections in the three categories: French novels, foreign novels and essays. Who will succeed Claudie Hunzinger for the French novel, Rachel Cusk for the foreign novel and Annette Wieviorka for the essay? Verdict on Monday, November 6, at the Carnavalet Museum.
The ladies of Femina revealed their latest selections before awarding their prizes on Monday, November 6 in the three categories: French novel, foreign novel, essay.
The magazine Livres Hebdo published the three lists. What do we notice? For French novels, the jurors removed half of the list. No longer appearing: Nathacha Appanah, Éric Chacour, Sarah Chiche, Franck Courtès and Agnès Desarthe.
Remaining in the running are Jean-Baptiste Andrea and Neige Sinno, both still on the Goncourt list, and currently the big bestsellers of the literary season. Guy Bolley, winner of the Deux Magots prize, Pierric Bailly and Agnès Mathieu-Daudé accompany them. On the publishing house side, P.O.L places two potential winners (Neige Sinno and Pierric Bailly); Grasset, L’Iconoclaste and Flammarion each have an author in the running. No Gallimard or Seuil in this final selection of French novels as in the selection of foreign novels.
As for foreign novels, the deliberations risk being disputed as the game seems open between the five potential winners.
Small surprise on the “Essays” side, with the unexpected entry of two new authors who were not even on the first selection (which is rare). Thus, among the five contenders, we include the integration of Marion van Renterghem with Piège Nord Stream (Les Arènes) and Joëlle Zask for Standing somewhere on the Earth (Premier Parallel editions). Will one of these two last minute candidates win at the post? Verdict on November 6, the Ladies of Femina will deliberate at the Carnavalet Museum. They will have first choice, since the next day it will be the turn of Goncourt and Renaudot.
Last year, Claudie Hunzinger for the French novel Un chien à ma table, published by Grasset, Rachel Cusk, for the foreign novel La Dépendance translated by Blandine Longre (Gallimard) and Annette Wieviorka for the essay Tombeaux. Autobiography of my family published in Le Seuil, won awards.