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    Charles Plisnier (13 December 1896, Ghlin – 17 July 1952, Brussels) was a Belgian writer from Wallonia. Training as a lawyer at the Free University of...
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    1972. On 1 January 1972, it was merged into Mons. Charles Plisnier (1896–1952), writer winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1937 Grand Large Arrêté royal du 18...
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    The Prix Goncourt (French: Le prix Goncourt, IPA: [lə pʁi ɡɔ̃kuʁ], The Goncourt Prize) is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt...
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    Pénétrance, poetry (1981), received the Prix Charles Plisnier [fr] Haute enfance, poetry (1990), received the Grand Prix de Poésie pour la Jeunesse awarded...
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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...
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    Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    novels as well as a number of award-winning short stories. He won the 2021 Prix Goncourt for his novel The Most Secret Memory of Men, becoming the first...
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    d'Honneur. Edmonde Charles-Roux died on 20 January 2016, in Marseille, at the age of 95. Oublier Palerme [fr], 1966, Grasset, novel, prix Goncourt 1966 Elle...
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    Amin Maalouf (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    The 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...
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    Mathias Énard (category Prix Décembre winners)
    Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Décembre, and won the Prix Goncourt/Le Choix de l’Orient, the Prix littéraire de la Porte Dorée [fr], and the Prix du...
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    Jean-Baptiste Andrea (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    received multiple awards, including the Grand Prix RTL-Lire, and Watching Over Her obtained the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2023. 2023: Veiller sur elle 2021:...
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    Henri Fauconnier (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    the Prix Goncourt in 1930. He was part of the Groupe de Barbezieux. Fauconnier was born at the Villa Musset Barbezieux (Charente), the son of Charles, a...
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  • Faux passeports (category Prix Goncourt winning works)
    Belgian novel by Charles Plisnier. It was first published by Corrêa in 1937. It received the prestigious Prix Goncourt, making Plisnier the first foreigner...
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    John Antoine Nau (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    poet and writer most famous for his novel Enemy Force, which won the first Prix Goncourt in 1903. He was born on November 19, 1860, in San Francisco, California...
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    Pascal Quignard (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    Eure. In 2002 his novel Les Ombres errantes (The Roving Shadows) won the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary prize. Terrasse à Rome (A Terrace in Rome)...
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    Patrick Modiano (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    European Literature, the 2010 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca from the Institut de France for lifetime achievement, the 1978 Prix Goncourt for Rue des boutiques...
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    Patrick Chamoiseau (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    books, screenplays, theatre and comics. His novel Texaco was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1992. Chamoiseau was born on 3 December 1953 in Fort-de-France...
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    Hervé Le Tellier (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    Calvino, Jacques Roubaud, Jean Lescure and Harry Mathews. He won the 2020 Prix Goncourt for The Anomaly. Born in Paris, Le Tellier started his career as...
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    Brigitte Giraud (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    French writer, author of novels and short stories. She was awarded the 2022 Prix Goncourt for her autobiographical novel Vivre vite (English: Live Fast)....
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    Alphonse de Châteaubriant (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    1951) was a French writer who won the Prix Goncourt in 1911 for his novel Monsieur de Lourdines and Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française for La...
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    Georges Duhamel (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    him immediate success, Vie des martyrs and Civilization (which won him the Prix Goncourt in 1918). Once he returned to civilian life, Duhamel dedicated himself...
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    Yann Queffélec (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    Queffélec (born 4 September 1949 in Paris) is a French author who won the Prix Goncourt in 1985 for his novel Les Noces barbares, translated into English...
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  • Jacques-Pierre Amette (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    2003 his novel Brecht's Mistress (French: La Maîtresse de Brecht) won the Prix Goncourt. He has been a correspondent for The New York Times and a journalist...
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  • Romain Gary (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    director, and World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt under two names. He is considered a major writer of French literature...
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    Jean-Paul Dubois (category Prix Femina winners)
    in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne) is a French journalist and author. He won the Prix Goncourt in 2019 for Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon...
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    André Malraux (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate) (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as information minister (1945–46) and subsequently...
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    Antonine Maillet (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    Nominal Letters "PC" for Life. In 1979 her work Pélagie-la-Charrette won the Prix Goncourt, making her the first non-European recipient. In 1994, the College...
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    Elsa Triolet (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    French Resistance. In 1944 Triolet was the first woman to be awarded the Prix Goncourt for her novel Le premier accroc coûte 200 francs. She died, aged...
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    Jérôme Ferrari (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    (born 1968 in Paris) is a French writer and translator. He won the 2012 Prix Goncourt for his novel Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome ("The Sermon on the...
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    Henri Béraud (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    known as one of France's best-selling novelists and reporters, and won the Prix Goncourt in 1922. He was virulently Anglophobic and to a lesser extent antisemitic...
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    Laurent Gaudé (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    for the Prix Goncourt and above all to be rewarded by the Prix Goncourt des lycéens and the Prix des librairies. Two years later, he won the Prix Goncourt...
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