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 to...
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Nicolas Mathieu (writer) (category Prix Goncourt winners)
Mathieu (born 2 June 1978 in Épinal) is a French author and winner of the Prix Goncourt in 2018. His first novel is Aux animaux la guerre ("To Animals War";...
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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 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...
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Éditions Gallimard. It won the 2022 Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française and was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt, which was awarded to Vivre vite by...
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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...
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The Map and the Territory (category Prix Goncourt winning works)
It 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...
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Le Grand Prix du Roman is a French literary award, created in 1914, and given each year by the Académie française. Along with the Prix Goncourt, the award...
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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...
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Mathieu's 2018 novel of the same name, which received the prestigious Prix Goncourt. The film is produced by Hugo Sélignac for Chi-Fou-Mi Productions and...
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Joseph Andras (category Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman recipients)
Julien Gracq who refused the prix Goncourt for Le Rivage des Syrtes, no author ever declined an award from the Académie Goncourt, with the exception of the...
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Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (category Prix Goncourt winners)
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 Sub-Saharan...
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Prix du roman de l'Académie française. It was also shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Femina. In November 2012, it was awarded the Prix Goncourt...
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deliberation of the jury of the Prix Goncourt. While not officially related to the Prix Goncourt, it remains a complement to it: The Prix Renaudot laureate is announced...
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Prix Goncourt for Debut novel, 2015 for Meursault, contre-enquête Mathias Énard, Prix du Livre Inter, 2009 for Zone (Roman) and third Prix Goncourt at...
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Alice Zeniter (category Prix du Livre Inter winners)
and director. She has won a Prix Renaudot young adult award for her third novel, Juste avant l'Oubli, and a Prix Goncourt young adult for her fourth novel...
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radicalisation of a teenager, the novel made the first selection for the Prix Goncourt and won the Prix Première in 2020. Quentin's second novel is about Jean Roscoff...
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Compass (novel) (category Prix Goncourt winning works)
French writer Mathias Énard, published in 2015. The book received the Prix Goncourt. During a sleepless night in Vienna, the musicologist Franz Ritter looks...
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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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New Directions Publishing (section Prix Goncourt)
New Directions Publishing Corp. is an independent book publishing company that was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin (1914–1997) and incorporated in 1964...
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Drouant (category Prix Goncourt)
restaurant has been receiving the jury of the Prix Goncourt every year since 1914, as well as the jury of the Prix Renaudot since 1926. Drouant's cuisine is...
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Mathias Énard (category Prix Goncourt 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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Romain Gary (category Prix Goncourt winners)
director, 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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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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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...
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Edmond de Goncourt left funds to create the Académie Goncourt which awards the Prix Goncourt literary prize. The station opened as part of the original...
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Kevin Lambert (category Prix Médicis winners)
in 2022. The novel was named to the initial longlist for the 2023 Prix Goncourt. Following the nomination, the novel sparked some controversy in France...
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Marguerite Duras (category Prix Goncourt winners)
describes her youthful affair with a Chinese-Vietnamese man. It won the Prix Goncourt in 1984. The story of her adolescence also appears in three other books:...
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Brigitte Giraud (category Prix Goncourt winners)
writer, author of novels and short stories. She was awarded the 2022 Prix Goncourt for her autobiographical novel Vivre vite (English: Live Fast). Born...
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