Selected in the first list of the Renaudot prize for his novel What I know about youQuebecer Éric Chacour found himself among the 10 titles in the second Femina selection on Tuesday.
The author, for whom this is his first novel, tells the story of Tarek, a doctor in Cairo in the 1980s who will be pushed into exile. It was published in January in Quebec by Alto and it came third in the best-selling novels as part of the August 12, I’m buying a Quebec book movement. In France, it was published on August 24 by publisher Philippe Rey and has already won the Première Plume prize, which aims to highlight emerging authors.
The finalists will be revealed on October 24 and the winner will be announced on November 6.
Last year, it was Claudie Hunzinger who won over the exclusively female jury of Femina with her novel A dog at my tablepublished by Grasset.
Second selection of French novels for the 2023 Femina Prize
- Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Watch over her –The Iconoclast
- Nathacha Appanah, Washed Memory – Mercury of France
- Pierric Bailly, Lightning –POL
- Guy Boley, To my only sister – Grasset
- Eric Chacour, What I know about you –Philippe Rey
- Sarah Chiche, The Alchemies – Threshold
- Franck Courtès, On the job – Gallimard
- Agnès Desarthe, The Château des Rentiers -Olive Tree
- Agnès Mathieu-Daudé, Sand merchants – Flammarion
- Snow Sinno, Sad Tiger –POL
Second selection of foreign novels for the 2023 Femina Prize
- Nina Allan, Conquest – Tristram (translated from English by Bernard Sigaud)
- Hila Blum, How to love your daughter – Robert Laffont (translated from Hebrew by Valérie Zenatti)
- Emma Cline, The Guest –La Table Ronde (translated from the American by Jean Esch)
- Hernan Diaz, Trust –L’Olivier (translated from the American by Nicolas Richard)
- Louise Erdrich, Sentence – Albin Michel (translated from the American by Sarah Gurcel)
- Paolo Giordano, Tasmania –The Noise of the World (translated from Italian by Nathalie Bauer)
- Lidia Jorge, Misericordia – Métailié (translated from Portuguese by Elisabeth Monteiro Rodrigues)
- Han Kang, Impossible goodbyes – Grasset (translated from Korean by Kyungran Choi and Pierre Bisiou)
- Maggie O’Farrell, The Wedding Portrait – Belfond (translated from Irish by Sarah Tardy)
- Robert Seethaler, The Nameless Café – Sabine Wespieser (translated from German by Elisabeth Landes, Herbert Wolf)
First selection of essays for the 2023 Femina Prize
- Daniel ANDLER, The Double Enigma – Gallimard
- Benoit CHANTRE, René Girard, biography – Grasset
- Negar DJAVADI, The Last Place – Stock
- Hélène FRAPPATGaslighting –The Observatory
- Sophie KEPESDisbelong – Maurice Nadeau
- Jean-Pierre LE GOFF, My Roaring Twenties –Robert Laffont
- Hugo MICHERONAnger and forgetting – Gallimard
- Nathalie PIEGAY 3 Nanas (Saint-Phalle, Bourgeois, Messager) – Threshold
- Pierre-Yves QUIVIGERA Philosophy of Wine – Albin Michel
- Perrine SIMON-NAHUMWisdom of politics –The Observatory