Claire Gallois, writer and juror of the Femina Prize for forty years, has died

A blessing will be given in his memory on November 27 at 10:00 a.m. in the Basilica of Sainte-Clotilde in Paris.

Claire Gallois, writer and juror of the Femina Prize for forty years, died at the age of 87, the literary institution said on Wednesday. “His opinions, his convictions, his literary passions will be greatly missed by the jury.“, said the Femina Prize, which held “to express his great sadness” in a press release.

A blessing will be given in his memory on November 27 at 10:00 a.m. in the Basilica of Sainte-Clotilde in Paris, the literary institution further specifies. Claire Gallois, Parisian novelist and essayist, notably wrote To my only desire (1965), A girl sewn with white thread (1970), The troubled man (1989) or even Dangerous hours (1992), which was a bestseller.

The Femina novel prize was awarded this year to the Franco-Venezuelan writer Miguel Bonnefoy, for The Jaguar’s Dream.