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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 1266497, member: 5833&quot;]That is a very confusing fragment of an article.&nbsp; The &#039;link&#039; for La Vie Heureuse goes to a page saying there is no article.&nbsp; The 1908 winner of that prize was this guy:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Estauni%C3%A9" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Estauni%C3%A9" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Édouard_Estaunié</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&amp; looks like at least half the winners have been men.&nbsp; Or women using a male nom de plume, such as:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Corthis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Corthis" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Corthis</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As written, I&#039;m having trouble reconciling:</p><p><br /></p><p>The <b>Prix Femina</b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix_Femina#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix_Femina#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine <i>La Vie heureuse</i> (today known as <i>Femina</i>)</p><p><br /></p><p>with:</p><p><br /></p><p>The prize was called the <b>Femina - Vie Heureuse Prize</b>, and it was awarded to English writers, from 1920 to 1940. Among the winners were E. M. Forster in 1925 and Virginia Woolf in 1928.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was some interruption during WWI, but awards were given 1917-1919.&nbsp; That was the last of it as a French prize &amp; then it became English??[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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