The first list of the Femina prize is revealed

Emma Becker, Miguel Bonnefoy and Gaël Faye found themselves in the first selection of the Prix Femina, unveiled on Tuesday.

The novel by singer-songwriter Gaël Faye, Jacaranda (Grasset), also appears in the first lists of the Goncourt and Renaudot prizes. Last year, it was Neige Sinno who was rewarded for sad tiger (PO L).

On the side of foreign novels, In the evening of Alexandriaby Egyptian writer Alaa El Aswany, and Well-beingby American Nathan Hill, are among the chosen titles.

The second selection will be revealed on the 1st^er October and will include the Essay category. Finalists will be announced on October 22 and the winners of the three categories on November 5.

French novels

• Hotel Roma by Pierre Adrian (Gallimard)
• The pretty evil by Emma Becker (Albin Michel)
• Another one is waiting for me elsewhere by Christophe Bigot (La Martinière)
• The Jaguar’s Dream by Miguel Bonnefoy (Rivages)
• The Orangery Syndrome by Grégoire Bouillier (Flammarion)
• The Land of Nowhere by Doan Bui (Grasset)
• Masao’s Boat by Antoine Choplin (Buchet Chastel)
• Ann of England by Julia Deck (Seuil)
• Jacaranda by Gaël Faye (Grasset)
• Archipelagos by Hélène Gaudy (Ed. de l’Olivier)
• Love Gil by Shane Addad (POL)
• The better life by Etienne Kern (Gallimard)
• Berlin for them by Benjamin de Laforcade (Gallimard)
• The Serpent’s Crown by Guillaume Perilhou (The Observatory)
• Ilaria by Gabriela Zalapì (Zoe)

Foreign novels

• In the evening of Alexandria by Alaa El Aswany (Actes Sud)
• Toxic season for fetuses by Vera Bogdanova (Actes Sud)
• Missed loves by Susie Boyt (The Crossroads)
• Theodoros by Mircea Cărtărescu (Black on white)
• One day in April by Michael Cunningham (Threshold)
• Question 7 by Richard Flanagan (Actes Sud)
• The Trackers by Charles Frazier (Plon)
• The Invisible Mrs. Orwell by Anna Funder (Héloïse d’Ormesson)
• Well-being by Nathan Hill (Gallimard)
• Maniac by Benjamín Labatut (Grasset)
• So little by Marco Lodoli (POL)
• On the island by Elizabeth O’Connor (JC Lattès)
• The Ruck Family by Katja Schönherr (Zoe)
• The blue hour by Peter Stamm (Christian Bourgois)
• Long Island by Colm Tóibín (Grasset)
• Own by Alia Trabucco Zerán (Robert Laffont)