Popular Paul-Féval Grand Prix of literature

French literary prize created in 1984 by the Company of the Men of letters

History

In 1984, the Company of the Men of letters, in homage to the novelist Paul Féval (1817-1887) who chaired the institution in 1867, created the Grand Prix Paul Féval of literature popular . The initiative of this price returns in Suzanne Lacaille, back-small-girl of the author. The Price is given to the spring of each year. It rewarded at the beginning the unit for work for an author for popular novels. Since 1995, the price is attached to a precise work. There is no spontaneous candidature.

Note intention of the SGDL

Author of the Mysteries of London , Uneven the , the black Clothes , Cœur of steel … Paul Féval painted in a realistic way…

… of the places and social environments where mix the imaginary situations, high characters colors like Lagardere, Cocardasse, Passepoil, become almost legendary. In the line of Alexandre Dumas, near to Eugene Sweats of which he is the contemporary and of Zola of which he is the predecessor and almost the ancestor, he is those which gave to the popular novel its noble letters. It counts among the large feuilletonists who made the fortune of the booksellers of the time and it had in heart to defend the profession .

Prize list

The price was decreed with the following writers:

Remarks

The novel the Mouth of Claude Seignolle, was written between 1944 and 1950, and is composed of three accounts, autobiographical. It had been published in the Waste ground, the publisher of Eric Losfeld, in 1959.

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