The third selection of the exclusively female jury eliminated authors like Miguel Bonnefoy or Yves Ravey, but retained Grégoire Bouillier.
Five women and one man are finalists for the Femina prize for the French novel, the jury announced on Tuesday.
The third selection of the exclusively female jury eliminated authors like Miguel Bonnefoy or Yves Ravey, but retained Grégoire Bouillier, who signs a 900-page investigation into a news item from the 1980s, the death of a woman who had stopped eating .
A first novel remains in the running, that of Polina Panassenko. Brigitte Giraud, also selected among the four Goncourt finalists, can still win the Femina, as well as the December prize.
In foreign novels, the third selection has four titles, including the novel by Russian-speaking Ukrainian Andrei Kurkov published in January, and in essays, six. In these three categories, the prize is awarded on November 7.
French novels:
- Gregory Bouillier, The heart does not give in (Flammarion)
- Brigitte Giraud, live fast (Flammarion)
- Sibyl Grimbert, The Last of His Own (Anne Career)
- Claudie Hunzinger, A dog at my table (Grasset)
- Oriane Jeancourt Galignani, When the tree falls (Grasset)
- Polina Panasenko, Have your tongue (Olive Tree)
Foreign Novels:
- Rachel Cusk, The addiction (Gallimard, Great Britain)
- Andrei Kourkov, Gray Bees (Liana Levi, Ukraine)
- Colm Toibin, The magician (Grasset, Ireland)
- Only Yanagihara, Towards paradise (Grasset, United States)
Trials:
- Paul Audi, Disturbing identity (Stock)
- Jean-Francois Braunstein, The Religion woke up (Grasset)
- Guillaume Durand, Let’s have lunch on the grass (Books)
- Florence Naugrette, Juliette Drouet, companion of the century (Flammarion)
- Krzysztof Pomian, The Museum, a world history, volume III (Gallimard)
- Annette Wieviorka, Tombs, autobiography of my family (Threshold)