After the Grand Prix du Novel, this fascinating book has just been awarded the Femina Prize

A bestselling book! After receiving the Grand Prix du roman from the Académie française, this literary work was again rewarded with the Femina prize. Enough to make us want to read it…

While you haven’t yet finished the book on your bedside table, you are already starting to look for your next read… And that’s good, a new literary prize has just been awarded this Tuesday, November 5. The Franco-Venezuelan writer Miguel Bonnefoy won the Femina Prize for her book The Jaguar’s Dream. The latter was also the winner of the Grand Prix du roman of the French Academy last October. New proof of its success!

The Jaguar’s Dream: a family epic that touches the reader

“It’s an award I’ve been waiting for for ten years. So you can imagine how much I am honored, I am happy »he told the Carnavalet-Histoire museum in Paris. “ I am also touched because my mother tongue is Spanish, and therefore to distinguish a book which is in French, that is to say which is not written in my mother tongue, I find that it speaks a lot, it speaks very good from France”, he added, particularly proud of his work. Throughout the pages, Miguel Bonnefoy immerses us in the history of Venezuela, while adding his own family legend. The colorful characters are as endearing as each other. A captivating novel in which we can discover elements autobiographicalpunctuated by a writing style described as magical realism.

Another author awarded the Femina Prize

“When a mute beggar from Maracaibo, Venezuela, picks up a newborn on the steps of a church, she has no idea of ​​the extraordinary destiny that awaits the orphan,” can we read on the back cover. Miguel Bonnefoy is not the only one to have been rewarded. Alia Trabucco Zeraa Chilean of Palestinian origin, received the Femina prize for foreign novels for his work Own. “It is an honor that Own the first Latin American novel to win the Foreign Femina Prize. Today, as a descendant of Palestinians (…) I cannot remain silent. Day after day, before our eyes, the horror in Palestine continues. Horror always spreads in silence. Let’s continue to raise our voices, thank you”, she declared in turn.