They've announced the longlists for this year's Prix Femina, another big French literary prize -- and another one that also honors foreign fiction.
Hey ! they (seem to ...) have an official site ! Hey, it's about as useless as every other French literary prize site. (Seriously, the pathetic prix Goncourt-section of the Académie Goncourt site is the best of all of these -- it's amazing how little effort they put into this.)
So you have to find the list of titles elsewhere -- so see, for example, Prix Femina 2015: les 32 romans sélectionnés at BibliObs.
Binet makes the French cut here, but de Vigan -- on a roll so far -- doesn't; neither does Liberati. Meanwhile, Sansal's 2084 goes for the clean sweep -- every one of the major prizes has longlisted it; it'll be interesting to see what its staying power in the next rounds is. Still, have to figure the English-language publishers (Europa Editions ? or has a bigger publisher swept in ?) are rushing the translation.
Meanwhile, Martin Amis makes the foreign fiction longlist -- which includes quite a few written-in-English titles. Among these: hard not to root for Jane Gardam's Le maître des apparences.
Hey ! they (seem to ...) have an official site ! Hey, it's about as useless as every other French literary prize site. (Seriously, the pathetic prix Goncourt-section of the Académie Goncourt site is the best of all of these -- it's amazing how little effort they put into this.)
So you have to find the list of titles elsewhere -- so see, for example, Prix Femina 2015: les 32 romans sélectionnés at BibliObs.
Binet makes the French cut here, but de Vigan -- on a roll so far -- doesn't; neither does Liberati. Meanwhile, Sansal's 2084 goes for the clean sweep -- every one of the major prizes has longlisted it; it'll be interesting to see what its staying power in the next rounds is. Still, have to figure the English-language publishers (Europa Editions ? or has a bigger publisher swept in ?) are rushing the translation.
Meanwhile, Martin Amis makes the foreign fiction longlist -- which includes quite a few written-in-English titles. Among these: hard not to root for Jane Gardam's Le maître des apparences.