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PRIX DE LA NOUVELLE VAGUE. A brand new prize, this one went to a first novel Christiane Rochefort's Le Repos du Guerrier. For a while Le Repos was in the running for Prix Femina, but the member of the female jury reportedly turned i down because they could not believe ii the alcoholic and amatory prowess of th book's hero as he seduces a young heiress Commented Novelist François Mauriac "It displeases me to play the role of virtuous father. But I ask this question Why should the history of the sex life...
...troubled bubbling of the French literary cauldron, no one supplies more fire, or more newt's eyes, than twelve eccentric old ladies who meet every so often to nibble lunch, bite backs and, once every year, pass out one of France's top literary awards, the Prix Femina. Although the Femina's cash value is only 5,000 francs ($12), the prize has enough prestige to guarantee a 100,000-copy sale to the novelist who lands it. To literary onlookers, the Femina's entertainment value is even greater; although the prize was created...
This is a good season, thanks largely to the leader of the "Red" faction of the Femina jury (named for its sanguine literary tastes and bloody infighting), a novelist, playwright and onetime actress known only as Simone (real name: Pauline Benda). "Several years ago," according to an acquaintance, "she stationed her age at a permanent 75." She reads a novel a day, still manages to take a personal interest in handsome young writers. Madame Simone is haughtily and heartily despised by the "Blue" faction (named for the hue of its blood), led by a scientist, mathematician and relative youngster...
...Blue member began to abstain. Snarled another Blue: "My poor friend, once again you have understood absolutely nothing!" The third abstention, on the seventh ballot, allowed crafty Parliamentarian Simone to invoke a tie-breaking rule: as acting President, she cast two votes, and Novelist Megret, 53, had his Prix Femina. Cried the done-in Duchesse: "I am proud to have voted against eroticism...
Flesh & the Devil. Since the war more women than men have won the prestigious Prix Femina (awarded by an all-woman jury), and more than 60 novels by women were thought to have enough merit to become candidates for the major literary awards. In a class by themselves are the prizewinning historical studies-51-year-old Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian's Memoirs (TIME, Nov. 29) and 38-year-old Zoé Oldenbourg's The Cornerstone (TIME, Jan. 10). But, like Colette, few of the ladies write historicals or go to libraries for material. They supply their...