Prix Renée Vivien

[29][30][31] The revived poetry prize continued to be awarded, without any consideration to the nationality of its contestants, to women who had published one or more volumes of French verse and allowed Natalie Clifford Barney to memorialise the life and works of Renée Vivien.

[8][14][32] After more than a decade of awarding poetry and providing monetary grants for women poets, the Prix Renée Vivien[en 2] of the Société des gens de lettres was discontinued in 1962.

[14][25][26] Both of these times are also characterised by an organisation held by the single Société des gens de lettres and prizes awarded only to female authors.

[note 1] This award honours distinguished works of French poetry which serve Renée Vivien's enlightened Hellenism, regardless of the gender or the nationality of the author.

It is possible to distinguish two organising bodies within the three periods aforementioned: the former held by the Société des gens de lettres and the latter and current by the Académie Renée Vivien.