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Grand prix des lectrices de Elle

The Grand prix des lectrices de Elle is a French literary prize awarded by readers of Elle magazine.

History

Unlike other literary prizes that have professionals for their juries and selection committees, the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle is a public award, convened and selected by readers of the magazine, and aimed at giving a voice to women who love to read. At its inception in 1969 by Hélène Lazareff, it was awarded solely to novels. From 1977, two categories were recognised - literary fiction and non-fiction. From 2002, crime fiction also came to be awarded.

Until 1992, eight regional committees designated at the first instance books of the month. A national jury then took over to elect the two major prizewinners in the categories of novels and non-fiction. Currently, eight monthly juries of fifteen readers each form the grand jury of 120 readers.

The editor of the Elle magazine makes an initial selection of books, emphasising first works or young authors or new publishers, and systematically eliminating the works that have already won major literary awards such as the Prix Goncourt, Prix Femina or the Prix Médicis. After this, every month from September to April, the eight juries of fifteen readers of Elle magazine deliberate to select their finalists, which in turn will be read by all the juries to select the grand winner in May.

Novels (from 1970)

Non-fiction (from 1977)

  • 1992: Anne Borrel, Alain Senderens and Jean-Bernard Naudin: Proust, la cuisine retrouvée - Le Chêne
  • 1993: Catherine Audard, Le Respect, de l'estime à la déférence: une question de limite - Autrement
  • 1994: Alexandra Lapierre, Fanny Stevenson - Robert Laffont
  • 1995: Henriette Walter, L'Aventure des langues en Occident - Robert Laffont
  • 1996: Shusha Guppy, Un jardin à Téhéran - Éditions Phébus
  • 1997: Serge Toubiana and Antoine de Baecque: François Truffaut - Gallimard
  • 1998: Evelyne Bloch-Dano: Madame Zola - Grasset
  • 1999: Laurent Greilsamer: Le Prince foudroyé, la vie de Nicolas de Staël - Fayard
  • 2000: Sabine Melchior-Bonnetand, Aude de Tocqueville: Histoire de l'adultère - La Martinère
  • 2001: François Bizot: Le Portail - La table Ronde.
  • 2002: Wladyslaw Szpilman: Le Pianiste (The Pianist) - Robert Laffont.
  • 2003: Jean-Pierre Perrin, Jours de poussière - Choses vues en Afghanistan - La Table ronde
  • 2004: Fabienne Verdier, Passagère du silence - Albin Michel
  • 2004: Anna Politkovskaya, Tchétchénie, le déshonneur russe (A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya) - Buchet/Chastel.
  • 2005: Azar Nafisi, Lire Lolita à Téhéran (Reading Lolita in Tehran) - Plon
  • 2006: Charles Dantzig, Dictionnaire égoïste de la littérature française - Grasset.
  • 2007: Dominique Bona, Camille et Paul, la passion Claudel - Grasset.
  • 2008: Wangari Maathai, Celle qui plante les arbres - Héloïse d'Ormesson.
  • 2009: Jean-Paul Mari, Sans blessures apparentes - Robert Laffont
  • 2010: Éric Fottorino, L'Homme qui m'aimait tout bas - Gallimard.
  • 2011: Ex-aequo : Benjamin Stora with Tramor Quémeneur, Algérie 1954-1962 - Éditions Les Arènes / Anne-Marie Revol, Nos étoiles ont filé - Éditions Stock
  • 2012: Helene Cooper, La Maison de Sugar Beach (The House at Sugar Beach) - .
  • 2013: Rithy Panh, L’Élimination.
  • 2014: Emmanuèle Bernheim, Tout s’est bien passé, Gallimard.
  • 2015: Pauline Guéna and Guillaume Binet, L'Amérique des écrivains, Éditions Robert Laffont
  • 2016: Marceline Loridan-Ivens for Et tu n’es pas revenu - Grasset
  • 2017: Mathias Malzieu for Journal d'un vampire en pyjama - Editions Albin Michel
  • 2018: Delphine Minoui for Les passeurs de livres de Daraya - Seuil
  • 2019: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich for L’empreinte - éditions Sonatine
  • 2020: Vanessa Springora for Consentement - Grasset
  • 2021: David L. Carlson and Landis Blair for L'accident de chasse - éditions Sonatine

Crime fiction (from 2002)

References

See also