LITERARY PRIZE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11193, 26 April 1922, Page 2

LITERARY PRIZE

NEW ZEALAND RU|fNER-UP. ROSE MACAULAY WINS. LONDON, February 28. It was reported some time ago. how Miss Katherine Mansfield, the Now Zealand writer, was in the running for the Femina-Vie Heureuse prize, but it has been awarded to Miss Rose Maoaulay for her novel, “Dangerous Ages.” The Femina-Vie Heureuse prize is awarded by a committee sitting in Paris to an English work of imagination published between June 30th, 1920, and Juno 29th, 1921. Only one vote behind Miss Macaulay’s novel, carrie Mr Brett Young’s “Black Diamond.”

Tlie prize, it will be remembered, was founded in 1918 by the French FeminaVie Heureuse Committee, which for many years had awarded an anneal prize for the best French novel. In both cases only younger or ..comparatively unknown authors are eligible. For the English prize the London committee choose three books (in prose or verse, by a man or a woman). From these tlie Paris committee selects one. In 1920 Lady Nortlicliffe, the president of the British committee for that year, founded a British prize for the best French novel. The following six novels recommended by the Paris comhrittee are now being considered by the Committee in London; “Epjthnlame,” by Ohadbourae; “Le Grancl Silence Blanc,” iby Roquette; “La Derniero Auberge,” .by Pieehaud; “Qnand la Terre Tremble,” by Anct; “Celle qni s’en va,” by Marion Gilbert; “Un Amour,” by Pernette Cille.