Word: feminae
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awarded to Pulitzer Prize Novelist Caroline Miller for her first & only book, Lamb in His Bosom, was France's Prix Femina for U. S. authors. Mrs. Miller will receive no cash prize but a free translation of her novel into French...
Awarded. To novelist Willa Gather, the first Prix Femina Americain for her Shadows on the Rock...
Author Delteil is only 35, but he is already high in reputation in his native France. An early book of verse won a prize from the French Academy; his Jeanne D'Arc won the Femina Vie Heureuse prize. A great Rabelaisian scholar, he is a hard worker, socially timid. Says he: "I am a citizen of the world, and a man of flesh and blood. To write is to make love. I place the senses higher than the brain. I should like all my books to provide the same pleasure as a woman gives. I have five senses...