Femina Vie Heureuse Prize

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Messrs Hachette, the publisher of two French magazines, Femina and La Vie Heureuse, established in 1904 an annual prize for a French work of imagination, chosen by a committee of literary women. In mostra altro 1919 Hachette offered to award similar prizes in a number of allied coutries. The offer was taken up in England and a committee formed, which held its first meeting on 20 June 1919. The prize was 1000 francs (£40) and was intended to "reward a strong and original piece of work, excellent in matter and in style, promising for the future, and calculated to reveal to French readers the true spirit and character of England" (Articles of Association of English committee no.VI, in minutes of first meeting, vol 1 p.6). The aim was to encourage writers who were felt to be insufficiently known or appreciated. Each year the committee discussed a dozen or so books recommended by members, and short-listed three, from which the French committee chose the winner. In 1920 Lady Northcliffe offered to fund a similar prize for a French work, and this was chosen by the English committee from a list submitted by the French committee. The prizes were presented by a well-known literary personality at a ceremony in London each summer. The winning books included Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, and Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm (see list of prizewinners below, p.2). Funding for the French prize was taken over by Hodder and Stoughton in 1923, when it was called the "Bookman" prize; then by Jonathan Cape 1929-1931 and Sir Ernest Benn 1932-1934, when it was once more called the Northcliffe prize. From 1935 onwards it was funded by Heinemann, and called the Heinemann prize. In 1938 Hachette discontinued the funding of the English prize, and it was taken over by the publisher Stock, and called the Stock (Femina Vie Heureuse) prize. The last prizes were awarded in the summer of 1939; the committees resolved to continue in spite of the war, but were evidently unable to do so, and the last meeting of the English committee was held on 10 April 1940. mostra meno
Categorie:
Tutto, French (2), Vincitore (1)
Anni:
Tutto, 1933 (1), 1928 (1), 1921 (1)