The Goncourt brothers (UK: /ɡɒnˈkʊər/, US: /ɡoʊŋˈkʊər/, French: [ɡɔ̃kuʁ] ) were Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896) and Jules de Goncourt (1830–1870), both...
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Prix Goncourt (French: Le prix Goncourt, IPA: [lə pʁi ɡɔ̃kuʁ], The Goncourt Prize) is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the...
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des Goncourt, which was named after the writers Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896) and his brother Jules de Goncourt (1830–1870). Edmond de Goncourt left...
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founder of the Académie Goncourt. Goncourt was born in Nancy. His parents, Marc-Pierre Huot de Goncourt and Annette-Cécile de Goncourt (née Guérin), were minor...
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The Société littéraire des Goncourt (Goncourt Literary Society), usually called the Académie Goncourt (Goncourt Academy), is a French literary organisation...
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The Prix Goncourt des Lycéens is a French literary award created in 1987 as a sort of younger sibling of Prix Goncourt, a prestigious prize for French...
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Heydrich in Prague during World War II. The novel was awarded the 2010 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman. The novel follows the history of the operation and the...
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Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt (pronounced [ʒyl də ɡɔ̃kuʁ]; 17 December 1830 – 20 June 1870) was a French writer, who published books together with his...
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The Goncourt Journal was a diary written in collaboration by the brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt from 1850 up to Jules' death in 1870, and then by...
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The Map and the Territory (category Prix Goncourt winning works)
was published on 4 September 2010 by Flammarion and received the Prix Goncourt, the most prestigious French literary prize, in 2010. The title is a reference...
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The Anomaly (novel) (category Prix Goncourt winning works)
received positive reviews from the literary press. It received the Prix Goncourt on 30 November 2020. An Oulipian work, it is structured around three parts...
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prix du roman de l'Académie française and was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt, which was awarded to Vivre vite by Brigitte Giraud. The author recounts...
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Amin Maalouf (category Prix Goncourt winners)
Crusades Through Arab Eyes is probably the best known. He received the Prix Goncourt in 1993 for his novel The Rock of Tanios, as well as the 2010 Prince of...
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Goncourt (French pronunciation: [ɡɔ̃kuʁ] ) is a former commune in the Haute-Marne department in north-eastern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged...
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published in French on August 16, 2018, by Éditions du Seuil, it won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens that same year. The English translation by Anna Moschovakis...
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The Rock of Tanios (category Prix Goncourt winning works)
the Prix Goncourt. 1993 in literature Contemporary French literature "Le Prix Goncourt". academie-goncourt.fr (in French). Académie Goncourt. Retrieved...
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Matignicourt-Goncourt (French pronunciation: [matiɲikuʁ ɡɔ̃kuʁ]) is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France. Communes of the Marne department...
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The Most Secret Memory of Men (category Prix Goncourt winning works)
September 2023. It received the Prix Goncourt on 3 November 2021. It is the first Sub-Saharan African winner of the Goncourt. The novel tells the story of a...
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Joseph Andras (category Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman recipients)
worker and independentist. The book was acclaimed by critics and won the Goncourt Prize for first novel, which the author refused because he didn't approve...
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Leïla Slimani (category Prix Goncourt winners)
Organisation internationale de la Francophonie. In 2016, she was awarded the Prix Goncourt for her novel Chanson douce. Slimani's maternal grandmother Anne Dhobb...
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Romain Gary (category Prix Goncourt winners)
and World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt twice (once under pseudonym). He is considered a major writer of French...
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be listed as the Choix Goncourt de l'Orient on 8 December 2020, the Choix Goncourt UK on 18 March 2021, and the Choix Goncourt Tunisia on April 3, 2021...
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young adult award for her third novel, Juste avant l'Oubli, and a Prix Goncourt young adult for her fourth novel, L'Art de Perdre. Zeniter published her...
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Hokusai art works: Goncourt, Edmond de (2014). Essential Hokusai. Bournemouth, Parkstone International. ISBN 978-1-78310-128-3. Goncourt, Edmond de (2014)...
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was also shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Femina. In November 2012, it was awarded the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens. For this prize, 2000 French-speaking...
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Simone de Beauvoir (category Prix Goncourt winners)
Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée (1958). She received the 1954 Prix Goncourt, the 1975 Jerusalem Prize, and the 1978 Austrian State Prize for European...
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Ernest Flammarion Goncourt brothers most famous all around the world with the Prix Goncourt, literature prize given by the académie Goncourt for "the best...
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unionist, politician and film director. The book was awarded the Prix Goncourt de la Biographie. The English translation by Stephen Twilley is set to...
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by her long liaison with the Prince of Soubise. According to Edmond de Goncourt, when d'Alembert was asked why dancers like La Guimard made such prodigious...
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of 1830. Talerico notes that earlier Western critics such as Edmond de Goncourt and Jack Hillier interpreted the work as a rape scene. She notes that these...
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