The Goncourt is a pure novel play; the Renaudot has two categories, fiction and non; and the third of the major French literary prizes, the Prix Femina, announced yesterday, is actually a trifecta of prizes, honoring fiction, non, and a work in translation.
Dark Heart of the Night-author Léonora Miano took the fiction prize, for La saison de l'ombre (see the Grasset publicity page), while Richard Ford took best foreign work, with Canada. Meanwhile, the non-fiction prize went to the father-and-son team of Jean-Paul and Raphaël Enthoven for their Dictionnaire amoureux de Proust (and, yes, that's the Raphaël who was married to Nothing Serious-author (and BHL daughter) Justine Lévy, and then had an affair (and a kid) with Carla Bruni before she went on to become Mme Sarkozy, for those of you keeping score at home).
See, for example, US author wins top French literary prize at France24.
Dark Heart of the Night-author Léonora Miano took the fiction prize, for La saison de l'ombre (see the Grasset publicity page), while Richard Ford took best foreign work, with Canada. Meanwhile, the non-fiction prize went to the father-and-son team of Jean-Paul and Raphaël Enthoven for their Dictionnaire amoureux de Proust (and, yes, that's the Raphaël who was married to Nothing Serious-author (and BHL daughter) Justine Lévy, and then had an affair (and a kid) with Carla Bruni before she went on to become Mme Sarkozy, for those of you keeping score at home).
See, for example, US author wins top French literary prize at France24.