the writers Philippe Sollers, Julia Kristeva, Georges Bataille, the poets Marcelin Pleynet and , the critics Roland Barthes, Gérard Genette and the philosophers Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan. Another post-1968 change was the birth of "Écriture féminine" promoted by the feminist Editions des Femmes, with new women writers as Chantal Chawaf, Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray ... From the 1960s on, many of the most daring experiments in French literature have come from writers born in French overseas departments or former colonies. This Francophone literature includes the prize-winning novels of Tahar ben Jelloun (Morocco), Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique), Amin Maalouf (Lebanon) and Assia Djebar (Algeria). See also France in Modern Times II (1920-today) Prix Goncourt - a French literary award for prose fiction, first awarded in 1903 Prix Femina - literary award since 1904 Prix Apollinaire - a French literary award for poetry, first awarded in 1941 Prix Médicis - literary award since 1958 Hussards (literary movement) Notes Further reading Azérad, Hugues, and Peter Collier, eds. Twentieth-Century French Poetry: A Critical Anthology (2010) Brée, Germaine and Louise Guiney. Twentieth-Century French Literature (University of Chicago Press, 1983) Cobb, Richard, Promenades: a historian's appreciation of modern French literature (Oxford University Press, 1980) Forman, Edward. Historical Dictionary of French Theater (2010) Gaensbauer, Deborah B. The French Theater of the Absurd (1991) Hatzfeld, Helmut Anthony. Trends and styles in twentieth century French literature (1966) Higgins, Ian. "French Poetry of the Great War." AGENDA (2014) 48#3-4 pp: 159-170. Kidd, William, and Sian Reynolds, eds. Contemporary French cultural studies (Routledge, 2014) Kritzman, Lawrence D., and Brian J. Reilly, eds. The Columbia history of twentieth-century French thought (Columbia University Press, 2006) Moore, Harry T. Twentieth-century French Literature: Since World War II (1966) Sartori, Eva Martin and Dorothy Wynne Zimmerman, eds. French Women Writers (1994) Watt, Adam. Marcel Proust in Context (2014) 7