LITERARY PRIZE.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 352, 5 February 1937, Page 3

LITERARY PRIZE.

Femina Vie Heureuse Committee Sits.

The committee of the Femina Vie Heureuse, which gives a yearly prize for a work of imagination, has begun its sittings in Paris. Books are being read and reports made on them. When the (French Iprize has 'been chosen a set of books is selected to be sent to the London. Committee, so that it can choose the one to be awarded the English prize. It is not so much the money value of these prizes that is coveted by young writers, as the publicity they bring in their train. The prize is usually translated, the English book into French and the French book into English. Mary Webb, Rosamond Lehmann and Margaret Kennedy are. among the English women who have been given prizes by the Femina Vie Heureuse committee. Among the French writers who have been given the prize in England are Jean Giono, Suzanne Lenormand and Julian Green.