Scottish author’s second novel Thirst secures prestigious French award, pipping Martin Amis to the post
Scottish novelist Kerry Hudson has beaten Martin Amis to win France’s prestigious Prix Femina for translated fiction with her second novel, Thirst.
The Prix Femina, judged by an all-female jury, was established in 1904 as an alternative to the Goncourt prize. It can be won by either a man or a womanand has gone in recent years to books by Richard Ford and Edward St Aubyn. This year saw Hudson’s Thirst, published in French as La couleur de l’eau, take six of the jury’s votes. Amis’s The Zone of Interest won five, according to French book trade magazine Livres Hebdo.
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