Literary prizes
Three of France’s top literary prizes have been awarded to writers whose work probes the past and transports the reader into a world of fantasy. Anne Herbert was awarded the Prix Femina by an all-women jury for “Les Fous de Bassan” (The Gannets), a poetic novel about two girl cousins who disappeared in a wild landscape in 1936. Professor Umberto Eco, aged 50, won the Prix Medicis for foreigners with a detective story set in an Italian Benedictine monastery in the fourteenth century. The French Prix Medicis was won by Jean-Francois Josselin. “L’enfer et Cie” (Hell and Co) traces the droll history of two drunks who try desperately to recall the past, through an alcoholic haze.— Paris.
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Press, 25 November 1982, Page 7
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