French and Francophone literary prizes, 2021-22

Almost as soon as the European Languages Across Borders blog was created, it started recording prizes for French language books (see French prizewinners for 2013). Before that, French literary prizewinners already featured in the webpages dedicated to Cambridge University Library’s French Collections. Prizes have long been an indicator of literary and cultural trends, reflecting the reception of contemporary writing, and contributing to its promotion and diffusion, on a national and international level. 2022 can be remembered as the year when Annie Ernaux became Literature Nobel Prize laureate. Prizes are also a useful tool in collection development. Here is a list of French and Francophone prizewinners for 2021-22. Among Francophone prizes, the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde still has to be awarded.

Comar d’Or: En pays assoiffé / Emna Belhaj Yahia, Des Femmes Editions, 2021, C206.d.6950

Grand prix du roman de l’Académie française: Le mage du Kremlin : roman / Giuliano da Empoli. Gallimard, 2022, C207.d.1589

Grand Prix du Roman Métis: Le rire des déesses : roman / Ananda Devi. Bernard Grasset, 2021, C206.d.7552

Prix Décembre: Quand tu écouteras cette chanson / Lola Lafon, Stock, 2022, C207.d.2435

Prix de Flore: Chienne et Louve / Joffrine Donnadieu. Gallimard, 2022, C207.d.2358

Prix des 5 continents de la Francophonie: Enlève la nuit / Monique Proulx. Québec, Ed. du Boréal, 2022, on order

Prix Femina: Un Chien à ma Table / Claudie Hunzinger. Grasset, 2022, C207.d.2438

Prix Femina de l’essai: Tombeaux, autobiographie de ma famille / Annette Wieviorka, Seuil, 2022, on order

Prix Goncourt:  Vivre vite / Brigitte Giraud, Flammarion, 2022, C207.d.2588

Prix Interallié: Roman fleuve / Philibert Humm, Editions des Equateurs, C219.c.2844

Prix Jean Giono: On était des loups : roman / Sandrine Collette, Jean-Claude Lattès, 2022, C207.d.2436

Prix littéraire Fetkann! Maryse Condé de la mémoire: Marianne face aux faussaires / Fatou Diome, Albin Michel, 2022, C207.d.2437

Prix littéraire Fetkann! Maryse Condé de la recherche: Haïti-France, la chaîne de la dette : le rapport Mackau (1825) / éd. Marcel Dorigny, Jean-Marie Théodat, Gusti-Klara Gaillard et Jean Claude Bruffaerts, Hémisphères Éditions, 2021, C207.d.2400

Prix Médicis: La Treizième heure / Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam, POL, C207.d.2586

Prix Renaudot: Performance / Simon Liberati, Grasset, 2022, C207.d.2587

Prix Renaudot essai: Déjeunons sur l’herbe : la beauté est-elle une secrète insulte ? / Guillaume Durand, Bouquins, 2022, C219.c.3284

Irene Fabry-Tehranchi

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