A LITERARY PRIZE.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20269, 11 August 1937, Page 11

A LITERARY PRIZE.

PRESENTED TO MARGARET LANE, FIRST NOVEL’S SUCCESS. Margaret Lane last month received the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1935-36 for her novel. “ Faith, Hope, No Charity.” The book, which was Miss Lane’s first novel, was a popular success. Sir William Rotherstein, the painter, presenting the prize at the new buildings of the Institute Francais, Queensberry Place, Lbndon, said that the novel contained some of the finest scenes in modem fiction, written with peculiar sympathy and a keen sense of observation. He was astounded and delighted, he said, at Miss Lane’s ability to draw a virtuous character with quite unusual beaut”. Miss Lane, in reply, said: “ Most young writers are forced to work at other things while they try to teach themselves to write. This produces a state of confusion and discourage-, ment in them. My delight at having won this prize has. I feel, pushed all my indecision into the background.” The Femina Vie Heureuse is awarded annually for what, in the committee’s opinion, is the best English imaginative work of the year.