Whether by their subject, their style or their originality, the novels of which we recall here the titles, signed by authors more or less confirmed but whose talent has in each case imposed on us, will have marked for our jury the first half of this literary competition.

  • Our selection 2016 for the price of the feminine novel MC

Bellevue by Claire Berest (ed. Stock)

Brillante by Stéphanie Dupays (edited by Mercure de France)

The one you think of Camille Laurens (ed. Gallimard)

I am not a man who cries of Fabienne Kanor (eds JC Lattès)

Memory of daughter of Annie Ernaux (ed. Gallimard)

Moro-sphinx by JulieEstève (ed. Stock),

For the skin of Emmanuelle Richard (edited by L'Olivier)

Ravie by Sylvie Ohayon (edited by Fayard).

  • The jury

Three members of MC (Fabrice Gaignault, president of the jury and editor in chief of culture, Marianne Mairesse, editor in chief, and Gilles Chenaille, literary columnist) and also this year Véronique Cardi, General Director of the Pocket Book, Justine Lévy , and Nathalie Iris, bookseller (Mots en marge, in La Garenne-Colombes).

  • The five finalists

Claire Berest, Stéphanie Dupays, Annie Ernaux, Camille Laurens and Emmanuelle Richard.

Bellevue by Claire Berest (ed. Stock)

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Brillante by Stéphanie Dupays (edited by Mercure de France)

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The one you think of Camille Laurens (ed. Gallimard)

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Memory of daughter of Annie Ernaux (ed. Gallimard)

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For the skin of Emmanuelle Richard (ed. L'Olivier)

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