The Fémina novel prize was awarded on Tuesday, November 5, to the Franco-Venezuelan writer Miguel Bonnefoy, for The dream of the jaguaralready crowned with the Roman Grand Prix of the French Academy in October. She won with five votes, compared to four for Emma Becker with Pretty evil.
“ It is an award that I have been waiting for for ten years.”declared the winner, at the Carnavalet-Histoire museum in Paris, remembering that his mother tongue was not French but Spanish. Between South America and France, The dream of the jaguarpublished by Rivages, follows the line of the family sagas of this 37-year-old author.
Another South American was awarded the Femina prize for foreign novels, the Chilean of Palestinian origin Alia Trabucco Zeran, for Own (Robert Laffont Editions). “It is an honor that +Proper+ is the first Latin American novel to win the Fémina Extranjera Award”said.
The Femina essay prize was awarded to Paul Audi for stand firm (Stock), an essay on anti-Semitism in France whose writing has been disturbed by events in the Middle East since October 7, 2023. “ Somehow I feel inclined to defend the fight against anti-Semitism from a point of view that is not precisely that of a Jew, because I am not one.declared this Franco-Lebanese philosopher.
A special prize was also awarded to Irishman Colm Toibin, for long island (Grasset). Present at the award ceremony, he thanked the translator of his fifteen books, Anna Gibson.
