Prix Femina for Oksanen, Prix Virilo for Despentes

"Le prix «Trop Virilo», qui récompense «la plus vivace poussée de testostérone littéraire de l’année», a été attribué ce mardi à Virginie Despentes pour son roman Apocalypse Bébé (Grasset), a annoncé le jury."

So tells a literary news in the newspaper Libération.

Despentes got the "trop viril" prize because, after the jury, she shows how for becoming totally woman one must use viril codes of a man. Jury says, that Despentes «jusqu’à sa fin explosive, tend à prouver que le seul moyen pour devenir pleinement femme, c’est d’emprunter les codes virils du mâle».

go the article of Libération

Despentes interview in English

Shimmers in the sky, or in the family album

Boudoir philosopher Ultra B. has been lately thinking if she should change her real name; if that would be a possibility to get away from the heavy past of an awful criminal.

The most obvious is that Ultra would take an earlier name of her family history, today wholly unknown. But this name cannot be announced because the whole idea would be to get the habitus of incognito.

Yesterday night in the boudoir's sauna department Ultra was joking and suggested for her man to take a name of Eros Caramello and Ultra would be Carmina, Carmen or Karma Caramello.

Dr. Eros Caramello liked the idea very much.