Prix Femina

The Prix Femina[a] is a French literary prize awarded each year by an exclusively female jury.

The prize, which was established in 1904, is awarded to French-language works written in prose or verse by male or female writers, and is announced on the first Wednesday of November each year.

[citation needed] After the Great War, in 1919 Librairie Hachette proposed to the allied countries to create a similar prize.

The last meeting of the jury for this prize was held on 10 April 1940, before the Nazis occupied France during World War II.

The Prix Femina étranger is awarded annually to a foreign-language literary work translated into French.