a second award for Miguel Bonnefoy, no prize for Caroline Fourest

The three prizes were awarded this Tuesday, November 5 to Miguel Bonnefoy, Alia Trabucco Zerán, and Paul Audi.

Et of two. Miguel Bonnefoy, 37, will not be satisfied with the Grand Prix du roman from the French Academy. This Tuesday, November 5, the Femina prize for the French novel was awarded to him. Among the winners, we must also count on Alia Trabucco Zerán, for Own (Robert Laffont), in the Foreign Novels category and on Paul Audi, for Stand your ground, chez Stock.

Prices somewhat tarnished by the controversy at the start of the week. The day before the winners are announced, The New Obs published a column denouncing the presence of Caroline Fourest in the Trials selection. Among the signatories: the actresses Judith Godrèche, Anouk Grinberg, Aïssa Maïga, Anna Mouglalis, the activist Caroline De Haas, the author Mona Chollet, author and the journalist and writer Hélène Devynck, all committed against violence against women.

The signatories listed, page by page, the comments which implicate them in his book Vertigo #MeToo. “An exhortation to resist the tendency to victimize, the journalist’s book is above all a misplaced condemnation”for his part judged Telerama in his criticism. They invited the jury of the Femina Prize “not to confuse feminine and feminist” and denounced a “backtrack”et « backlash » by the simple choice of having your book included in the selection. The book ultimately did not have the votes of the jury.

The selections

Pierre Adrian, Hotel Roma (Gallimard)
Emma Becker, Pretty Evil (Albin Michel)
Christophe Bigot, Another one is waiting for me elsewhere (La Martinière)
Miguel Bonnefoy, The Jaguar's Dream (Shore)
Antoine Choplin, Masao's Boat (Buchet Chastel)
Benjamin de Laforcade, Berlin for them (Gallimard)

Foreign novels
Richard Flanagan, Question 7 (South Acts)
Benjamin Labatut, Maniac (Grasset)
Marco Lodoli, So little (P.O.L)
Anne Michaels, Hugs (Basement)
Colm Tóibín, Long Island (Grasset)
Alia Trabucco Zerán, Own (Robert Laffont)

Trials
Paul Audi, Stand your ground (Stock)
Antoine Compagnon, Literature pays! (Ecuadors)
Caroline Fourest, MeToo vertigo: finding balance after the new sexual revolution (Grasset)
Maïa Hruska, Ten versions of Kafka (Grasset)
Charles Stépanoff, Attachments: investigation into our bonds beyond the human (The Discovery)
Joëlle Zask, Admire: praise of a feeling that makes us grow (First parallel)