The Prix Femina is almost as old as the biggest of the French literary prizes, the Goncourt -- it was first awarded in 1904, just a year after the first Goncourt -- and it's the first of the big awards to be announced (with the rest to follow shortly).
Peste & Choléra by Patrick Deville took the (domestic) prize (see also the Seuil publicity page), while The Buddha in the Attic (well, Certaines n'avaient jamais vu la mer) by Julie Otsuka won the foreign category. See, for example, the France 24 report, US writer Julie Otsuka wins Femina foreign novel prize.
This prize has a pretty good track record of having the prize-winning titles get translated into English -- and quite a few of them are under review at the complete review. See, for example, just the ones awarded since 2000:
Peste & Choléra by Patrick Deville took the (domestic) prize (see also the Seuil publicity page), while The Buddha in the Attic (well, Certaines n'avaient jamais vu la mer) by Julie Otsuka won the foreign category. See, for example, the France 24 report, US writer Julie Otsuka wins Femina foreign novel prize.
This prize has a pretty good track record of having the prize-winning titles get translated into English -- and quite a few of them are under review at the complete review. See, for example, just the ones awarded since 2000:
- 2010: Life is Short and Desire Endless by Patrick Lapeyre
- 2006: Fault Lines by Nancy Huston
- 2004: Vie Française by Jean-Paul Dubois
- 2002: Farewell, My Queen by Chantal Thomas
- 2000: In Those Arms by Camille Laurens