Having just won the Inrockuptibles prize, the book “Sad Tiger” by Neige Sinno is part of the latest Femina list, in the novel category, alongside “Veiller sur elle” by Jean-Baptiste Andrea.
The Femina Prize revealed on Tuesday the names of the five finalists selected in its novel category, including that of Neige Sinno for sad tigeralready crowned with the Inrockuptibles prize the same day.
Guy Boley, who won the Deux-Magots prize at the end of September, is another contender, as is Jean-Baptiste Andrea, winner of the Fnac novel prize at the end of August.
The Femina Prize, with an exclusively female jury as its name suggests, must be awarded on November 6, the day before the Goncourt Prize. It has three categories: novel, foreign novel and essay, which brings together six finalists.
Third selection of French novels:
– Jean-Baptiste Andrea, “Watch over her” (The Iconoclast)
– Pierric Bailly, “The Lightning” (POL)
– Guy Boley, “To my sister and only” (Grasset)
– Agnès Mathieu-Daudé, “Sand Merchants” (Flammarion)
– Snow Sinno, “Sad Tiger” (POL)
Third selections of foreign novels:
– Louise Erdrich, “La Sentence” (Albin Michel, United States)
– Lidia Jorge, “Misericordia” (Métailié, Portugal)
– Han Kang, “Impossible Goodbyes” (Grasset, South Korea)
– Maggie O’Farrell, “The Wedding Portrait” (Belfond, Great Britain)
– Robert Seethaler, “The Café Without a Name” (Sabine Wespieser, Germany)
Second selection of essays:
– Négar Djavadi, “The Last Place” (Stock)
– Hugo Micheron, “Anger and Forgetting” (Gallimard)
– Nathalie Piégay, “3 girls: Saint-Phalle, Bourgeois, Messager” (Seuil)
– Perrine Simon-Nahum, “Wisdom of politics” (L’Observatoire)
– Marion Van Renterghem, “The Nord Stream Trap” (Les Arènes)
– Joëlle Zask, “Stand somewhere on earth” (First parallel)