Europe 1 with AFP 1:38 p.m., November 7, 2022, modified at 1:39 p.m., November 7, 2022
The artist and novelist Claudie Hunzinger won the Femina prize for the French novel on Monday with "A dog at my table", published by Grasset editions.
The artist and novelist Claudie Hunzinger won the Femina prize for the French novel on Monday with "A dog at my table" (Grasset editions).
Gathered at the Carnavalet museum in Paris, the exclusively female jury chose its winner in the first round, by six votes against three to Grégoire Bouillier.
"A dog at my table" tells how the arrival of a young dog will change the life of a young couple in the depths of the Vosges.
The novelist had won the December prize in 2019
Claudie Hunzinger, 82, also a visual artist, won the December prize in 2019 with her previous novel, "Les Grands Cerfs".
The Femina prize for the foreign novel went to the Briton Rachel Cusk for "La Dépendance" (Gallimard).
This fiction tells a camera between three couples won over by pride.
The Femina essay prize was awarded to historian Annette Wieviorka for "Tombs, autobiography of my family" (Seuil).
A special prize was awarded for all of his work to the Franco-Polish Krzysztof Pomian, author of a sum in three volumes, "The Museum, a world history" (Gallimard).
Two last great autumn literary prizes remain to be awarded: the Medici on Tuesday and the Interallié on Wednesday.