The writer wins the price with “adapt”, which tells the arrival of a handicapped child in a siblings. The Femina prize of the foreign novel returns to Turkish Ahmet Altan, and the price of the trial in Annie Cohen-Solal.
Le Monde with AFP
The femina prize of the French novel has been given, Monday, October 25, to Clara Dupont-Monod to adapt, published in stock editions. Between the Carnavalet Museum, in Paris, the exclusively female jury chose this laureate in the eighth turn, with six votes, against five in Thomas B. Reverdy for Climax (Flammarion).
48 year old, Clara Dupont-Monod had won the Landerneau Readers Prize for this fiction on the arrival of a handicapped child in a siblings.
Ahmet Altan and Annie Cohen- Solal also rewarded
This price is the first of the first autumn literary prizes, before the Medici, Tuesday, the French Grand Prix of the French Academy Thursday, and the prices Goncourt and Renaudot, November 3rd.
The Femina prize of the foreign novel went to Ahmet Altan, for Madame Hayat (south acts), novel written in prison and not yet published in his original language. It was in the first round that he won. Finally the price of the trial was awarded to Annie Cohen-Solal, for a foreigner named Picasso (Fayard), which tells how the Spanish Master has never acquired French nationality.