Prix Femina
Encyclopedia
The Prix Femina is a French literary
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

 prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine La Vie heureuse (today known as Femina
Femina
Femina is a Latin noun meaning 'woman'.It is the title of five magazines:*Femina , a fortnightly women's magazine owned by the Times Group and published in India since July 1959*Femina , the first women's magazine in Indonesia...

). The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury, although the authors of the winning works do not have to be women. The winner is announced on the first Wednesday of November each year.

Note: The Prix Femina is often misspelled Prix Fémina, but it is officially spelled without an accent even in French.

List of winners

There are three categories: Prix Femina, Prix Femina Essai, Prix Femina Étranger (foreign novels).

Prix Femina

Year Title Winner
2011 Dire son nom Francisco Goldman
Francisco Goldman
Francisco Goldman is an American novelist, journalist, and Allen K. Smith Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, Trinity College. He is workshop director at , the journalism school for Latin-America created by Gabriel García Márquez...

 
2010 La vie est brève et le désir sans fin Patrick Lapeyre
Patrick Lapeyre
Patrick Lapeyre is a French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina, 2010, for his seventh novel, La vie est brève et le désir sans fin. Laypeyre was born in 1949 in Pantin. He attended the École Normale Supérieure with Alain Finkelkraut and Pascal Bruckner before studying literature at the Sorbonne...

 
2009 Personne Gwenaëlle Aubry
Gwenaëlle Aubry
-Biography :She studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in the Rue d'Ulm and at Trinity College, Cambridge.She graduated with the Doctor of Philosophy. She lectured in ancient philosophy, at the Nancy 2 University, from 1999 to 2002, a research fellow at CNRS since 2002...

 
2008 Où on va, papa? Jean-Louis Fournier
Jean-Louis Fournier
Jean-Louis Fournier is a French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina, 2008, for Où on va, papa?.-Works:*Le curriculum vitae de Dieu, Seuil, 1995, ISBN 9782020220194...

2007 Baisers de cinéma Eric Fottorino
Eric Fottorino
Eric Fottorino, , is a French journalist and writer. He is the winner of the Prix Femina, 2007, for Baisers de cinéma. After having been a reporter for the daily newspaper Le Monde, then becoming editor-in-chief and executive editor, he was appointed president of the directory group of the La...

2006 Lignes de faille (Fault Lines) Nancy Huston
Nancy Huston
Nancy Louise Huston, OC is a Canadian-born novelist and essayist who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English.-Biography:...

2005 Asile de fous Régis Jauffret
Régis Jauffret
Régis Jauffret is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 2005, for Asiles de fous.-Works:*Seule au milieu d'elle: roman, Denoël, 1985, ISBN 9782207231463*Les gouttes: pièce en un acte, Denoël, 1985, ISBN 9782207231937...

2004 Une vie française (Vie Francaise) Jean-Paul Dubois
Jean-Paul Dubois
Jean-Paul Dubois is a French writer.He is the author of several novels and travel pieces, and reports for Le Nouvel Observateur. His latest novel, Une vie française, published in French in 2004 and in English in 2007, is a saga of the French baby boom generation, from the idealism of the 1960s to...

2003 Le complexe de Di
Le Complexe de Di
Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch is a novel by Dai Sijie published in 2003. The French title of the novel is a play on "le complexe d'Oedipe", or "the Oedipus complex". The novel was translated into English in 2005 by Ina Rilke under the name Mr...

(Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch)
Dai Sijie
Dai Sijie
Dai Sijie is a French author and filmmaker of Chinese ancestry.-Biography:Dai Sijie was born in China in 1954. Because he came from an educated middle-class family, the Maoist government sent him to a reeducation camp in rural Sichuan from 1971 to 1974, during the Cultural Revolution. After his...

2002 Les adieux à la reine (Farewell, My Queen) Chantal Thomas
Chantal Thomas
Chantal Thomas is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 2002, for Les adieux à la reine.-References:...

2001 Rosie Carpe Marie Ndiaye
Marie NDiaye
Marie NDiaye is a French novelist and playwright. She published her first novel, Quant au riche avenir, when she was only 17 and she won the Prix Femina in 2001 for her novel Rosie Carpe...

2000 Dans ces bras-là (In His Arms) Camille Laurens
Camille Laurens
Camille Laurens is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 2000, for Dans ces bras-là.-References:...

1999 Anchise Maryline Desbiolles
Maryline Desbiolles
Maryline Desbiolles is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 1999, for Anchise.-References:...

1998 Le Dit de Tianyi (The River Below) François Cheng
François Cheng
François Cheng is a French academician, writer, poet and calligrapher...

1997 Amour noir Dominique Noguez
Dominique Noguez
Dominique Noguez is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 1997, for Amour noir.-References:...

1996 Week-end de chasse à la mère Genevière Brisac
1995 La Classe de neige (Class Trip) Emmanuel Carrère
Emmanuel Carrère
Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter and director. He is the son of Louis Édouard Carrère, often known as Louis Carrère d'Encausse after his wife's pen name, and French historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse....

1994 Port-Soudan Olivier Rolin
Olivier Rolin
Olivier Rolin is a French writer.He won the Prix Femina in 1994, for his novel Port-Soudan.His brother Jean is also a writer and journalist.-External links:*...

1993 L'Oeil du silence Marc Lambron
Marc Lambron
Marc Lambron is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 1993, for L'Oeil du silence.-Bibliography:* Les Menteurs* L'Impromptu de Madrid, * L'Œil du silence * 1941* Étrangers dans la nuit...

1992 Aden Anne-Marie Garat
Anne-Marie Garat
Anne-Marie Garat is a French novelist. She won the Prix Femina for her novel Aden in 1992 and the prix Marguerite Audoux for her novel Les mal famées....

1991 Déborah et les anges dissipés Paula Jacques
Paula Jacques
Paula Jacques is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 1991, for Deborah et les anges dissipés.-References:...

1990 Nous sommes éternels Pierrette Fleutiaux
Pierrette Fleutiaux
Pierrette Fleutiaux is a French writer. His awards include the 1985 Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle for Métamorphoses de la reine, and winner of the 1990 Prix Femina for Nous sommes éternels.-References:...

1989 Jours de colère Sylvie Germain
Sylvie Germain
-Early life and education:During her childhood, with her three brothers and sisters, she moved from city to city, depending on the assignments her sub-prefect father received....

1988 Le Zèbre (The Zebra) Alexandre Jardin
Alexandre Jardin
Alexandre Jardin is a French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina, 1988, for Le Zèbre.-References:...

1987 L'Égal à Dieu (God's Equal) Alain Absire
Alain Absire
Alain Absire is a French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina, 1984, for L'Égal de Dieu.-References:...

1986 L'Enfer René Belletto
René Belletto
-References:...

 
1985 Sans la miséricorde du Christ Hector Bianciotti
Hector Bianciotti
Hector Bianciotti is an Argentine-born French author and member of the Académie française.-Biography:Born Héctor Bianciotti in Calchin Oeste in Córdoba Province , Bianciotti's parents were immigrants from Piedmont, who communicated among themselves in the dialect of that region but who forbade...

1984 Tous les soleils Bertrand Visage
Bertrand Visage
Bertrand Visage is a French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina, 1984, for Tous les soleils.-References:...

1983 Riche et légère Florence Delay
Florence Delay
Florence Delay is a French academician and actress.-Biography:The daughter of Marie-Madeleine Carrez and Jean Delay, Delay studied at the Lycée Jean de La Fontaine and then the Sorbonne....

1982 Les Fous de Bassan (In the Shadow of the Wind) Anne Hébert
Anne Hébert
Anne Hébert, CC, OQ , was a Canadian author and poet. She is a descendant of famed French-Canadian historian Francois-Xavier Garneau, "and has carried on the family literary tradition spectacularly."...

1981 Le Grand Vizir de la nuit Catherine Hermary-Vieille
Catherine Hermary-Vieille
Catherine Hermary-Vieille is a French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina, 1981, for Le Grand Vizir de la nuit.-References:...

1980 Joue-nous España Jocelyne François
Jocelyne François
Jocelyne François is a French writer. She is the author of five lesbian novels, and winner of the Prix Femina.-Career:...

1979 Le Guetteur d'ombre Pierre Moinot
Pierre Moinot
Pierre Moinot was a French novelist. He was elected to the Académie française on 21 January 1982.-Bibliography:*Armes et Bagages, roman...

1978 Un amour de père François Sonkin
François Sonkin
François Sonkin is a French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina, 1978, for Un amour de père.-References:...

1977 La neige brûle Régis Debray
Régis Debray
Jules Régis Debray is a French intellectual, journalist, government official and professor. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society; and for having fought in 1967 with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in...

1976 Le Trajet Marie-Louise Haumont
Marie-Louise Haumont
Marie-Louise Haumont is a Belgian writer.She won the 1976 Prix Femina, for her novel, Le Trajet.-Life:She was an editor for the paper Combat in Paris during World War II.-Works:...

1975 Le Maître d'heure Claude Faraggi
1974 L'Imprécateur René-Victor Pilhes
René-Victor Pilhes
René-Victor Pilhes is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 1974, for L'Imprécateur.-References:...

1973 Juan Maldonne Michel Dard
Michel Dard
Michel Dard is a French writer and winner of the Prix Femina, 1973, for Juan Maldonne.-References:...

1972 Ciné-roman Roger Grenier
Roger Grenier
Roger Grenier is a French writer, journalist and radio animator. He is Regent of the Collège de ’Pataphysique.- Biography :Young, he lived in Pau, where Andrélie opened a shop selling glasses....

1971 La Maison des Atlandes Angelo Rinaldi
Angelo Rinaldi
Angelo Rinaldi is a French writer and literary critic.-Biography:Rinaldi is the son of Pierre-François Rinaldi and Antoinette Pietri; after growing up in Corsica he became a journalist...

1970 La Crève François Nourissier
François Nourissier
François Nourissier was a French journalist and writer.Nourissier was the secretary-general of Éditions Denoël , editor of the review La Parisienne , and an adviser with the Éditions Grasset Paris publishing house .In 1970, he won the Prix Femina for his book La crève...

1969 La Deuxième Mort de Ramón Mercader Jorge Semprún
Jorge Semprún
Jorge Semprún Maura was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962, during the era of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer for the exiled Communist Party of Spain, but was expelled...

1968 L'Oeuvre au noir (The Abyss) Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy Seat 3.-Biography:Yourcenar was born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie...

1967 Élise ou la Vraie Vie Claire Etcherelli
Claire Etcherelli
Claire Etcherelli is a French novelist who has won Femina Prize * for her novel Elise, or the real life *-Bibliography:*Elise ou la vraie vie...

1966 Nature morte devant la fenêtre Irène Monesi
Irène Monesi
Irène Monesi is a French writer. She won the 1966 Prix Femina.Her novels concerned the problems of lesbian relationships.-Works:*Althia: roman, Éditions du Seuil, 1957*Cet acte tendre: roman, Corréa, 1960...

1965 Quelqu'un (Someone) Robert Pinget
Robert Pinget
Robert Pinget was a major avant-garde French writer, born in Switzerland, who wrote several novels and other prose pieces that drew comparison to Beckett and other major Modernist writers...

1964 Le Faussaire Jean Blanzat
1963 La Nuit de Mougins Roger Vrigny
1962 Le Sud Yves Berger
1961 Le Promontoire (The Promontory) Henri Thomas
Henri Thomas
Henri Thomas was a French writer and poet.-Life:Henri Thomas was born in 1912 and grew up in the Alsace/Lorraine region of France. He moved to Paris to attend the prestigious Henri IV high school, working with the noted essayist Alain...

1960 La Porte retombée Louise Bellock
1959 Au pied du mur Bernard Privat
Bernard Privat
-Biography:Bernard Privat received the Prix Femina for Au pied du mur in 1959.He was also in charge of the éditions Grasset for over twenty-five years. As Bernard Grasset's nephew, Bernard Privat took the job in 1954. In 1967, along with his friend Jean-Claude Fasquelle, he merged his publishing...

1958 L'Empire céleste (Café Céleste) Françoise Mallet-Joris
Françoise Mallet-Joris
Françoise Mallet-Joris is the nom de plume of Françoise Lilar.She was born in Antwerp, the daughter of the writer Suzanne Lilar and the Belgian Minister of Justice and Minister of State Albert Lilar, and the sister of the 18th century art historian Marie Fredericq-Lilar...

1957 Le Carrefour des solitudes Christian Megret
1956 Les Adieux François-Régis Bastide
1955 Le pays où l'on arrive jamais André Dhôtel
1954 La Machine humaine Gabriel Véraldi
1953 La Pierre angulaire Zoé Oldenbourg
Zoé Oldenbourg
Zoé Oldenbourg was a Russian-born French historian and novelist who specialized in mediæval French history, in particular the Crusades and Cathars.-Life:...

1952 Le Souffle Dominique Rolin
1951 Jabadao Anne de Tourville
1950 La Femme sans passé Serge Groussard
1949 La Dame de coeur Maria Le Hardouin
1948 Les Hauteurs de la ville Emmanuel Roblès
Emmanuel Roblès
Emmanuel Roblès was an Algerian-French author. He was elected a member of the Académie Goncourt in 1973...

1947 Bonheur d'occasion
The Tin Flute
The Tin Flute , Gabrielle Roy’s first novel, is a classic of Canadian fiction...

Gabrielle Roy
Gabrielle Roy
Gabrielle Roy, CC, FRSC was a French Canadian author.- Biography :Born in Saint Boniface , Manitoba, Roy was educated at Saint Joseph's Academy...

1946 Le Temps de la longue patience Michel Robida
1945 Le Chemin du soleil Anne-Marie Monnet
1944 Décerné aux Éditions de Minuit
1943 no winner
1942 no winner
1941 no winner
1940 no winner
1939 La Rose de la mer Paul Vialar
1938 Caroline ou le Départ pour les îles Félix de Chazournes
1937 Campagne Raymonde Vincent
1936 Sangs Louise Hervieu
1935 Bénédiction Claude Silve
1934 Le Bateau-refuge Robert Francis
1933 Claude Geneviève Fauconnier
Geneviève Fauconnier
Geneviève Fauconnier was a French novelist who lived in the south of the Charente département, . She was one of the most sensitive members of the so called Groupe de Barbezieux...

1932 Le Pari Ramon Fernandez
Ramón Fernández
Ramon S. Fernandez is generally regarded as the greatest basketball player produced by the Philippine Basketball Association. Fernandez won four Most Valuable Player awards and a record of 19 PBA championships bagged...

1931 Vol de nuit
Night Flight (book)
Night Flight is the second novel by French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first published in 1931 and became an international bestseller.- Background :...

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , officially Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint Exupéry , was a French writer, poet and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of France's highest literary awards, and in 1939 was the winner of the U.S. National Book Award...

1930 Cécile de la Folie Marc Chadourne
1929 La Joie Georges Bernanos
Georges Bernanos
Georges Bernanos was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. Of Roman Catholic and monarchist leanings, he was a violent adversary to bourgeois thought and to what he identified as defeatism leading to France's defeat in 1940.-Biography:Bernanos was born at Paris, into a family of...

1928 Georgette Garou Dominique Dunois
1927 Grand-Louis l'innocent Marie Le Franc
1926 Prodige du coeur Charles Silvestre
1925 Jeanne d'Arc Joseph Delteil
1924 Le Bestiaire sentimental Charles Derennes
1923 Les Allongés Jeanne Galzy
Jeanne Galzy
Jeanne Galzy , born Louise Jeanne Baraduc, was a French novelist and biographer from Montpellier. She was a member of the jury for the Prix Femina...

1922 Silbermann Jacques de Lacretelle
Jacques de Lacretelle
Jacques de Lacretelle was a French novelist. He was elected to the Académie française on November 12, 1936.-Bibliography:* 1920 La vie inquiète de Jean Hermelin...

1921 Cantegril Raymond Escholier
1920 Le Jardin des Dieux Edmond Gojon
1919 Les Croix de bois Roland Dorgelès
Roland Dorgelès
Roland Dorgelès , was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Goncourt.Born Roland Lecavelé , he spent his childhood in Paris....

1918 Le Serviteur Henri Bachelin
1917 L'Odyssée d'un transport torpillé René Milan
1916 no winner
1915 no winner
1914 no winner
1913 La Statue voilée Camille Marbo
1912 Feuilles mortes Jacques Morel
1911 Le Roman du malade Louis de Robert
1910 Marie-Claire Marguerite Audoux
Marguerite Audoux
Marguerite Audoux was a French novelist.- Biography :Marguerite Donquichote, who took her mother's name, Audoux, in 1895, was orphaned by age three, following the death of her mother and abandonment by her father...

1909 Le reste est silence Edmond Jaloux
Edmond Jaloux
Edmond Jaloux was a French novelist, essayist, and critic. His works tended to be set in Paris or his native Provence. He was interested in German Romanticism and English writers. In 1936 he joined the Académie française...

1908 La Vie secrète Édouard Estaunié
Édouard Estaunié
Édouard Estaunié was a French novelist. Estaunié trained as a scientist and engineer before turning to the novel in 1891. In 1904, he devised the word "telecommunication". He was elected to the Académie française in 1923...

1907 Princesses de science Colette Yver
1906 Gemmes et moires André Corthis
1905 Jean-Christophe Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915.-Biography:...

1904 La Conquête de Jérusalem Myriam Harry

Prix Femina Essai

2009 : Histoire de chambres - Michèle Perrot
Michèle Perrot
Michèle Perrot is a French historian, and Professor emeritus at the Paris Diderot University. She won the 2009 Prix Femina Essai.-Life:...

2008 : Voix off - Denis Podalydès
Denis Podalydès
Denis Podalydès is a French actor, director and scriptwriter of Greek descent. He is a Sociétaire of the Comédie-Française....

2007 : L'Encre du voyageur - Gilles Lapouge
Gilles Lapouge
Gilles Lapouge is a French writer and journalist with the daily O Estado de São Paulo. He won the 2007 Prix Femina Essai.-Life:He gew up in Algeria, where his father was military.After studying history and geography, he became a journalist....

2006 : Qui dit je en nous? Une histoire subjective de l'identité - Claude Arnaud
Claude Arnaud
Claude Arnaud is a French writer, essayist, biographer. He won the 2006 Prix Femina Essai.-Biography:He worked as an offset printing activist, and participated with the Workers' Struggle....

2005 : L'ensauvagement - Thérèse Delpech
Thérèse Delpech
Thérèse Delpech has been director of strategic studies at the French Atomic Energy Commission since 1997. She is also a researcher with CERI at Sciences Po, commissioner with the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, and international adviser to the International...

2004 : L'Indiscrétion des frères Goncourt - Roger Kempf
2003 : Une saison de machettes - Jean Hatzfeld
2002 : Massoud - Michael Barry
Michael Barry
Michael Barry was a British television producer and executive, who was an important early influence on BBC television drama...

2001 : Ô dix-neuvième! - Elvire de Brissac

Prix Femina Étranger

2010 : Puhdistus
Purge (novel)
Purge is a novel by Finnish-Estonian writer Sofi Oksanen, which has been translated into thirty-eight languages. Oksanen's third Finnish-language novel was published in 2008, based upon her original play of the same name, which was staged at the Finnish National Theatre in 2007...

- Sofi Oksanen
Sofi Oksanen
Sofi Oksanen is a Finnish contemporary writer. She was born in Jyväskylä. Her father is Finnish and her mother is Estonian. So far, Oksanen has published three novels, one an international best seller and a play. She has received several awards for her literary work.-Life:Sofi Oksanen was born and...

2009 : Maurice mit Huhn - Matthias Zschokke
Matthias Zschokke
-Life:He attended drama school at the Schauspielhaus Bochum.Since 1980, he living as a writer and filmmaker in Berlin.He has written nine volumes of prose, eight plays, and three films.-Awards :...

2008 : Chaos calme - Sandro Veronesi
Sandro Veronesi
Sandro Veronesi, born in Prato, Tuscany in 1959, is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. After earning a degree in architecture at the University of Florence, he opted for a writing career in his mid to late twenties. Veronesi published his first book at the age of 25, a collection of...

2007 : Le goût de la mère (Mother's Milk) - Edward Saint Aubyn
2006 : L'Histoire de Chicago May (The Story of Chicago May) - Nuala O'Faolain
Nuala O'Faolain
Nuala O'Faolain was an Irish journalist, TV producer, book reviewer, teacher and author. She became internationally well-known for her two volumes of memoir, Are You Somebody? and Almost There; a novel, My Dream of You; and a history with commentary, The Story of Chicago May...

2005 : The Falls
The Falls (Oates novel)
The Falls is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, originally published in 2004 by the Ecco Press, and winner of the 2005 Prix Femina Etranger.It tells the story of Ariah, a woman whose husband threw himself over Niagara Falls on their honeymoon...

- Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...

2004 : Sang impur (The Speckled People) - Hugo Hamilton
Hugo Hamilton
-Life:Hamilton's mother was a German who travelled to Ireland in 1949 for a pilgrimage, married an Irishman, and settled in the country. His father was a militant nationalist who insisted that his children should speak only German or Irish, but not English, a prohibition the young Hugo resisted...

2003 : La porte (The Door
The Door (novel)
The Door is a novel by Hungarian writer Magda Szabó . The novel concerns the developing relationship between a young Hungarian writer and her cleaner, and is partly autobiographical....

) - Magda Szabó
Magda Szabó
Magda Szabó was a Hungarian writer, arguably Hungary's foremost woman novelist. She also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memories and poetry....

2002 : Montedidio (God's Mountain) - Erri De Luca
Erri De Luca
Erri De Luca is an Italian novelist, translator and poet. He has been defined as "the writer of the decade" by the Corriere della Sera literature critic Giorgio De Rienzo.-Biography:...

2001 : Mauvaise Pente (The Long Falling) - Keith Ridgway
Keith Ridgway
Keith Ridgway is a Dublin-born award-winning writer. He currently lives in Edinburgh.-Writings:Ridgway's first published fictional prose work was Horses, which appeared in Faber First Fictions Volume 13 in 1997. In 1998 The Long Falling, was published by Faber & Faber, London...

2000 : Mon Frère - (My Brother) Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid is a Caribbean novelist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in the city of St. John's on the island of Antigua in the nation of Antigua and Barbuda...

1999 : Le Bouddha blanc (The White Buddha) - Hitonari Tsuji
Hitonari Tsuji
is a Tokyo-born Japanese writer, composer, and film director. In his film and singing work he uses the name Jinsei Tsuji, an alternative reading of the Japanese writing of his name. He debuted as a writer in 1989. His films include and ....

1998 : Pleine Lune (Full Moon) - Antonio Muñoz Molina
Antonio Muñoz Molina
Antonio Muñoz Molina is a Spanish writer and, since 8 June 1995, a full member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He currently resides in New York City, United States...

1997 : La Capitale déchue (The Abandoned Capital) - Jia Pingwa
Jia Pingwa
Jia Pingwa is a Chinese novelist.He is the third most popular writer in China, in a biennial poll conducted by the Chinese Publishing Science Research Center in 2006. His Turbulence: A Novel won the Pegasus prize in literature...

1996 : Demain dans la bataille, pense à moi (Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marías was first published in 1994. Margaret Jull Costa’s English translation was published by The Harvill Press in 1996...

) - Javier Marías
Javier Marías
Javier Marías is a Spanish novelist. He is also a translator and columnist.-Life:Javier Marías was born in Madrid. His father was the philosopher Julián Marías, who was briefly imprisoned and then banned from teaching for opposing Franco...

1995 : Rouge décanté (Sunken Red) - Jeroen Brouwers
Jeroen Brouwers
Jeroen Godfried Marie Brouwers is a Dutch journalist and writer. From 1964 to 1976 Brouwers worked as an editor at Manteau publishers in Brussels...

1994 : Royaume interdit (Sacred Country
Sacred Country
Sacred Country is a novel by English author Rose Tremain, it was published in 1992 by Sinclair Stevenson and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Prix Femina Etranger. It has been compared to Virginia Woolf's Orlando.-Plot introduction:...

) - Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain CBE is an English author.-Life:Rose Tremain was born Rosemary Jane Thomson on August 2, 1943 in London and attended Francis Holland School then Crofton Grange School from 1954 to 1961; the Sorbonne from 1961–1962; and graduated from the University of East Anglia in 1965 where she then...

1993 : L'Enfant volé (The Child in Time
The Child in Time
The Child in Time is a novel by Ian McEwan. It won the Whitbread Novel Award for that year. The story concerns Stephen, an author of children's books, and his wife, two years after the kidnapping of their three-year-old daughter Kate.-Plot:...

) - Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan
Ian Russell McEwan CBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist and screenwriter, and one of Britain's most highly regarded writers. In 2008, The Times named him among their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"....

1992 : Love, etc. - (Talking it Over
Talking It Over
Talking It Over is a novel by Julian Barnes published in 1991, it won the Prix Femina Étranger the following year.It concerns a love triangle in which each of the three people concerned take it in turns to tell the story from their perspective using first person narrative...

) - Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes
Julian Patrick Barnes is a contemporary English writer, and winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize, for his book The Sense of an Ending...

1991 : Ce vaste monde (The Great World
The Great World
The Great World is a 1990 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author David Malouf.-Awards:*Festival Awards for Literature , National Fiction Award, 1992: winner*Prix Femina , Best Foreign Novel, 1991: winner...

) - David Malouf
David Malouf
David George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was...

1990 : Matin perdu - Vergilio Ferreira
Vergílio Ferreira
Vergílio Ferreira, JOSE was a Portuguese writer.As a teenager, he studied in a seminar. Later he studied at the University of Coimbra. His experiences are related in his most famous work "Manhã Submersa", Vergílio Ferreira, JOSE (Melo, Gouveia, 28 January 1916 – Lisbon, 1 March 1996) was a...

1989 : La Vérité sur Lorin Jones (The Truth About Lorin Jones) - Alison Lurie
Alison Lurie
Alison Lurie is an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. Although better known as a novelist, she has also written numerous non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress.-Personal...

1988 : La Boîte noire (Black Box
Black Box (book)
Black Box is a book by Israeli writer Amos Oz. It was first published in Israel in 1986 by Am Oved, and in the US by Harcourt in 1988.The book's plot deals with the tensions resulting from a destroyed marriage...

) - Amos Oz
Amos Oz
Amos Oz is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva....

1987 : Mouflets (Monkeys) - Susan Minot
Susan Minot
Susan Minot is a prize-winning American novelist and short story writer.Minot was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated from Concord Academy and then attended Brown University, where she studied writing and painting; in 1983 she graduated from Columbia University School of the Arts with...

1986 : Bethsabée (Bathsheba) - Torgny Lindgren
Torgny Lindgren
Gustav Torgny Lindgren is a Swedish writer.Lindgren is the son of Andreas Lindgren and Helga Björk. He studied in Umeå to become a teacher and worked as a teacher until the middle of the 1970s. He was for several years active as a local politician for the Swedish Social Democratic Party...

1985 : Michael K, sa vie, son temps (Life & Times of Michael K
Life & Times of Michael K
Life & Times of Michael K is a 1983 novel by South African-born author J. M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2003. The book itself won the Booker Prize for 1983...

) - John Maxwell Coetzee
John Maxwell Coetzee
John Maxwell Coetzee ; is an author and academic from South Africa. He is now an Australian citizen and lives in Adelaide, South Australia...

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