The 37-year-old Franco-Venezuelan author won the prestigious literary award this Tuesday, November 5, awarded by an exclusively female jury.
The literary awards season continues. After the Goncourt and the Renaudot on Monday, this time it was the Femina prize which was awarded this Tuesday, November 5 to Miguel Bonnefoy, for his work the dream of the jaguar (ed. Shores). The jury, made up of twelve women, decorated the 37-year-old Franco-Venezuelan author at the Carnavalet Museum. He succeeds Neige Sinno, winner in 2023 with her novel on incest sad tiger.
Among the six candidates to run for the literary award, also included Emma Becker for pretty evil (ed. Albin Michel), Christophe Bigot, Benjamin de Laforcade, Pierre Adrian and Antoine Choplin.
Prestigious winners
When it was created in 1904, the Femina Prize was intended to bring a feminine perspective to a literary world dominated by men, and aspired to counterbalance the Goncourt Prize, which decorated very few female novelists – launched in 1903, it will only be awarded for the first time to a woman, Elsa Triolet, in 1945.
The specificity of the Femina Prize lies in its exclusively female jury, which rewards the best French and foreign works, as well as essays. Several renowned writers such as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Marguerite Yourcenar and Marie Ndiaye are among the winners of past years.
