1944: Elsa Triolet, first woman to win France's Prix Goncourt.[27] 1970: Bernice Rubens, first woman to win the Man Booker Prize (for The Elected Member.)[28] 1992: Mona Van Duyn, first female poet laureate of the United States.[29] 2015: Julie Schumacher, first woman to win the Thurber Prize for American Humor.[30] 2015: Zurinah Hassan, first female Malaysian National Laureate.[31]