Prix Goncourt

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 the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". Four other prizes are also awarded: prix Goncourt du Premier Roman (first novel), prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle (short story), prix Goncourt de la Poésie (poetry) and prix Goncourt de la Biographie (biography). Of the "big six" French literary awards, the Prix Goncourt is the best known and most prestigious.[1] The other major literary prizes are the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, the Prix Femina, the Prix Renaudot, the Prix Interallié and the Prix Médicis.[1]

Prix Goncourt
Awarded for	"the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"
Date	November, annual
Country	France
Presented by	Académie Goncourt
First awarded	1903
Website	academie-goncourt.fr

History

Edmond de Goncourt

Edmond de Goncourt, a successful author, critic, and publisher, bequeathed his estate for the foundation and maintenance of the académie Goncourt.[2] In honour of his brother and collaborator, Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt (1830–1870), the académie has awarded the Prix Goncourt every December since 1903.[2] The jury that determines the winner meets at the Drouant restaurant in November to make its decision.[3] Notable winners of the prize include Marcel Proust (In Search of Lost Time), Simone de Beauvoir (The Mandarins), André Malraux (Man's Fate) and Marguerite Duras (The Lover).[2]

The award was initially established to provide talented new authors with a monetary award that would allow them to write a second book.[4] Today, the Goncourt has a token prize amount (around 10 euros), about the same amount given in 1903, and so the prestige of the prize has been explained not because of the cash-value of the prize, but "in terms of the tremendous book sales it effects: the Goncourt winner becomes an instant millionaire."[5]

In 1987, the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens was established, as a collaboration between the académie Goncourt, the French Ministry of Education, and Fnac, a book, music, and movie retailer.

The Prix Renaudot is announced at the same ceremony as the Prix Goncourt. It has become known as something of a second-place prize.[6]

Controversies

Journalists at Le Drouant restaurant, 2016 Prix Goncourt.

Within months of the first prize in 1903, it spawned a "hostile counter-prize" in the form of the Prix Femina to counter the all-male Jury of the Goncourt with an all-female jury on the Femina.[7]

Some decisions for awarding the prize have been controversial, a famous case being the decision to award the prize in 1919 to Marcel Proust; this was met with indignation, since many in the public felt that the prize should have gone to Roland Dorgelès for Les Croix de bois, a novel about the First World War.[8][9] The prize was supposed to be awarded to promising young authors, whereas Proust was not considered "young" at 48 – however Proust was a beginning author which is the only eligibility requirement, age being unimportant.[8][9]

In 1921, Rene Maran won the Goncourt with Batouala, veritable roman negre, the first French novel to openly criticize European colonialism in Africa.[10] The novel caused "violent reactions" and was banned in all the French colonies.[10]

In 1932, the prize was controversial for passing up Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit for Guy Mazeline's Les Loups.[11] The voting process became the basis of the 1992 book Goncourt 32 by Eugène Saccomano.[12]

Although the award may only be given to an author once, Romain Gary won it twice, in 1956 for Les racines du ciel and again under the pseudonym Émile Ajar in 1975 for La vie devant soi.[13] The Académie Goncourt awarded the prize to Ajar without knowing his real identity.[13] A period of literary intrigue followed. Gary's cousin's son Paul Pavlowitch posed as the author for a time. Gary later revealed the truth in his posthumous book Vie et mort d'Émile Ajar.[13]

Winners

Prix Goncourt winners

Year	Author	French title	English title	Transl. year	Film title	Film year	Notes
1903	John Antoine Nau	Force ennemie	Enemy Force	2010	N/A	N/A
1904	Léon Frapié	La Maternelle	N/A	N/A	La Maternelle	1933
1905	Claude Farrère	Les Civilisés	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1906	Jean and Jérôme Tharaud	Dingley, l'illustre écrivain	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1907	Émile Moselly	Le Rouet d'ivoire and Jean des Brebis ou le livre de la misère	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	[n 1]
1908	Francis de Miomandre	Écrit sur de l'eau...	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1909	Marius-Ary Leblond	En France	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1910	Louis Pergaud	De Goupil à Margot	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1911	Alphonse de Châteaubriant	Monsieur des Lourdines	The Keynote	1912	Monsieur des Lourdines	1943
1912	André Savignon	Les Filles de la pluie	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1913	Marc Elder	Le peuple de la mer	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1914	Adrien Bertrand	L'Appel du Sol	The Call of the Soil	1919	N/A	N/A	[n 2]
1915	René Benjamin	Gaspard	Private Gaspard	1916	N/A	N/A
1916	Henri Barbusse	Le Feu	Under Fire	1917	N/A	N/A	[n 3]
1917	Henry Malherbe	La Flamme au poing	The Flame That Is France	1918	N/A	N/A
1918	Georges Duhamel	Civilisation	Civilization	1919	N/A	N/A
1919	Marcel Proust	A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs	Within a Budding Grove	1920	N/A	N/A	[n 4]
1920	Ernest Pérochon	Nêne	Nêne	1920	Nène[15]	1924
1921	René Maran	Batouala	Batouala	1921	N/A	N/A
1922	Henri Béraud	Le vitriol de la lune and Le martyre de l'obèse	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1923	Lucien Fabre	Rabevel ou Le mal des ardents	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1924	Thierry Sandre	Le Chèvrefeuille, le Purgatoire, le Chapitre XIII	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1925	Maurice Genevoix	Raboliot	N/A	N/A	Raboliot Raboliot[16] Raboliot[17]	1946 1972 2008
1926	Henri Deberly	Le supplice de Phèdre	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1927	Maurice Bedel	Jérôme 60° latitude nord	Jerome: or, The Latitude of Love	1928	N/A	N/A
1928	Maurice Constantin-Weyer	Un Homme se penche sur son passé	A Man Scans His Past	1929	Un homme se penche sur son passé[18] Les amants de rivière rouge[19]	1958 1996
1929	Marcel Arland	L'Ordre	N/A	N/A	L'Ordre[20]	1985
1930	H. Fauconnier	Malaisie	The Soul of Malaya or Malaisie	1931	N/A	N/A
1931	Jean Fayard	Mal d'amour	Desire	1931	N/A	N/A
1932	Guy Mazeline	Les Loups	The Wolves	1935	N/A	N/A
1933	André Malraux	La Condition humaine	Man's Fate	1934	N/A	N/A
1934	Roger Vercel	Capitaine Conan	Captain Conan	1935	Capitaine Conan	1996
1935	Joseph Peyre	Sang et Lumières	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1936	Maxence Van Der Meersch	L'Empreinte de Dieu	Hath Not the Potter	1937	N/A	N/A
1937	Charles Plisnier	Faux passeports	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	[n 5]
1938	Henri Troyat	L'Araigne	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1939	Philippe Hériat	Les enfants gâtés	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1940	Francis Ambrière	Les grandes vacances	The Long Holiday	1948	N/A	N/A	[n 6]
1941	Henri Pourrat	Vent de Mars	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1942	Marc Bernard	Pareil à des enfants	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1943	Marius Grout	Passage de l'Homme	When the Man Passed By	1962	N/A	N/A
1944	Elsa Triolet	Le premier accroc coûte 200 Francs	A Fine of Two Hundred Francs	1947	N/A	N/A
1945	Jean-Louis Bory	Mon village à l'heure allemande	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1946	Jean-Jacques Gautier	Histoire d'un Fait divers	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1947	Jean-Louis Curtis	Les Forêts de la Nuit	The Forests of the Night	1950	N/A	N/A
1948	Maurice Druon	Les grandes familles	The Rise of Simon Lachaume	1952	The Possessors Les grandes familles[21]	1958 1989
1949	Robert Merle	Week-end à Zuydcoote	Week-end at Zuydcoote	1950	Weekend at Dunkirk	1964
1950	Paul Colin	Les jeux sauvages	Savage Play	1953	N/A	N/A
1951	Julien Gracq	Le Rivage des Syrtes	The Opposing Shore	1986	N/A	N/A	[n 7]
1952	Béatrix Beck	Léon Morin, prêtre	The Priest (UK), The Passionate Heart (US)	1953	Léon Morin, Priest Léon Morin, prêtre[22]	1961 1991
1953	Pierre Gascar	Les Bêtes	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1954	Simone de Beauvoir	Les Mandarins	The Mandarins	1957	N/A	N/A
1955	Roger Ikor	Les eaux mêlées	N/A	N/A	Les eaux mêlées[23]	1969
1956	Romain Gary	Les racines du ciel	The Roots of Heaven	1957	The Roots of Heaven	1958
1957	Roger Vailland	La Loi	The Law	1958	The Law	1959
1958	Francis Walder	Saint-Germain ou la négociation	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1959	André Schwarz-Bart	Le dernier des Justes	The Last of the Just	1960	N/A	N/A
1960	Vintilă Horia	Dieu est né en exil	God Was Born in Exile	1961	N/A	N/A
1961	Jean Cau	La pitié de Dieu	The Mercy of God	1963	N/A	N/A
1962	Anna Langfus	Les bagages de sable	The Lost Shore	1964	N/A	N/A
1963	Armand Lanoux	Quand la mer se retire	N/A	N/A	Quand la mer se retire[24]	1963
1964	Georges Conchon	L'Etat sauvage	N/A	N/A	The Savage State	1978
1965	Jacques Borel	L'Adoration	The Bond	1968	N/A	N/A
1966	Edmonde Charles-Roux	Oublier Palerme	To Forget Palermo	1968	Dimenticare Palermo	1990
1967	André Pieyre de Mandiargues	La Marge	The Margin	1970	The Margin	1976
1968	Bernard Clavel	Les fruits de l'hiver	The Fruits of Winter	1969	N/A	N/A
1969	Félicien Marceau	Creezy	Creezy	1970	Creezy	1974
1970	Michel Tournier	Le Roi des Aulnes	The Erl-King (UK) or The Ogre (US)	1972	The Ogre	1996
1971	Jacques Laurent	Les Bêtises	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1972	Jean Carrière	L'Epervier de Maheux	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1973	Jacques Chessex	L'Ogre	A Father's Love (1975) or The Tyrant (2012)	1975	N/A	N/A	[n 8]
1974	Pascal Lainé	La Dentellière	A Web of Lace (1976) or The Lacemaker (2008)[25]	1976	The Lacemaker	1977
1975	Émile Ajar (Romain Gary)	La vie devant soi	Momo (1978) or The Life Before Us (1986)	1978	Madame Rosa	1977	[n 9]
1976	Patrick Grainville	Les Flamboyants	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1977	Didier Decoin	John l'enfer	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1978	Patrick Modiano	Rue des boutiques obscures	Missing Person	1980	N/A	N/A
1979	Antonine Maillet	Pélagie la Charette	Pélagie: The Return to Acadie	1982	N/A	N/A
1980	Yves Navarre	Le Jardin d'acclimatation	Cronus' Children	1986	N/A	N/A
1981	Lucien Bodard	Anne-Marie	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1982	Dominique Fernandez	Dans la main de l'Ange	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1983	Frédérick Tristan	Les égarés	The Lost Ones	1991	N/A	N/A
1984	Marguerite Duras	L'Amant	The Lover	1986	The Lover	1992
1985	Yann Queffélec	Les Noces barbares	The Wedding	1987	The Cruel Embrace	1987
1986	Michel Host	Valet de nuit	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1987	Tahar Ben Jelloun	La Nuit sacrée	The Sacred Night	1989	La Nuit sacrée[26]	1993
1988	Érik Orsenna	L'Exposition coloniale	Love and Empire	1991	N/A	N/A
1989	Jean Vautrin	Un grand pas vers le Bon Dieu	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1990	Jean Rouaud	Les Champs d'honneur	Fields of Glory	1992	N/A	N/A
1991	Pierre Combescot	Les Filles du Calvaire	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1992	Patrick Chamoiseau	Texaco	Texaco	1998	N/A	N/A
1993	Amin Maalouf	Le Rocher de Tanios	The Rock of Tanios	1994	N/A	N/A
1994	Didier Van Cauwelaert	Un Aller simple	One-Way	2003	One Way Ticket[27]	2001
1995	Andreï Makine	Le Testament français	Dreams of My Russian Summers	1998	N/A	N/A
1996	Pascale Roze	Le Chasseur Zéro	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1997	Patrick Rambaud	La Bataille	The Battle	2000	N/A	N/A
1998	Paule Constant	Confidence pour confidence	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1999	Jean Echenoz	Je m'en vais	I'm Gone (US) or I'm Off (UK)	2001	N/A	N/A
2000	Jean-Jacques Schuhl	Ingrid Caven	Ingrid Caven	2004	N/A	N/A
2001	Jean-Christophe Rufin	Rouge Brésil	Brazil Red	2004	N/A	N/A
2002	Pascal Quignard	Les Ombres errantes	The Roving Shadows	2011	N/A	N/A
2003	Jacques-Pierre Amette	La maîtresse de Brecht	Brecht's Lover (US) or Brecht's Mistress (UK)	2005	N/A	N/A
2004	Laurent Gaudé	Le Soleil des Scorta	The House of Scorta (US 2006) The Scortas' Sun (UK 2007)	2006	N/A	N/A
2005	François Weyergans	Trois jours chez ma mère	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2006	Jonathan Littell	Les Bienveillantes	The Kindly Ones	2009	N/A	N/A
2007	Gilles Leroy	Alabama song	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2008	Atiq Rahimi	Syngué Sabour: La pierre de patience	Stone of Patience (UK) or The Patience Stone (US)	2010	N/A	N/A
2009	Marie NDiaye	Trois femmes puissantes	Three Strong Women	2012	N/A	N/A
2010	Michel Houellebecq	La Carte et le territoire	The Map and the Territory	2012	N/A	N/A
2011	Alexis Jenni	L'Art français de la guerre	The French Art of War	2017	N/A	N/A
2012	Jérôme Ferrari	Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome	The Sermon on the Fall of Rome	2014	N/A	N/A
2013	Pierre Lemaitre	Au revoir là-haut	The Great Swindle	2015	See You Up There	2017
2014	Lydie Salvayre	Pas pleurer	Cry, Mother Spain	2016	N/A	N/A
2015	Mathias Énard	Boussole	Compass	2017	N/A	N/A
2016	Leïla Slimani	Chanson douce	Lullaby	2018	N/A	N/A
2017	Éric Vuillard	L'Ordre du jour	The Order of the Day	2018	N/A	N/A
2018	Nicolas Mathieu	Leurs enfants après eux	The Children Who Came After Them	2019	N/A	N/A
2019	Jean-Paul Dubois	Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Notes

• Translations full audit: March 2009[28]
• Films full audit: February 2011[29]
• Translation date is of first translation, later ones may be available.
• Website of the Academie Goncourt with list of past winners.

Other awards

In addition to the Prix Goncourt for a novel, the Academy Awards four other awards, for first novel, short story, biography and poetry.

As of March 2009, the académie changed the award name by dropping "bourses" ("scholarship") from the title.[30][31] The prefix "prix" can be included or not, such as "Prix Goncourt de la Poésie" (Goncourt prize for Poetry) or "Goncourt de la Poésie" (Goncourt of Poetry). For example: "Claude Vigée was awarded a Goncourt de la Poésie in 2008". Or, "Claude Vigée won the 2008 prix Goncourt de la Poésie".

The award titles are:

Pre-2009 award name	Post-2009 award name	Category
Bourse Goncourt de la Biographie	Prix Goncourt de la Biographie	Biography
Bourse Goncourt de la Nouvelle	Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle	Short story
Bourse Goncourt du Premier Roman	Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman	Debut novel
Bourse Goncourt de la Poésie	Prix Goncourt de la Poésie	Poetry
Bourse Goncourt Jeunesse	discontinued	Juvenile

The winners are listed below.[32]

Prix Goncourt de la Biographie

Goncourt Prize for biography. Awarded in partnership with the city of Nancy.

• 1980 – Jean Lacouture, François Mauriac
• 1981 – Hubert Juin, Victor Hugo
• 1982 – Pierre Sipriot, René Depestre
• 1983 – Ghislain de Diesbach, Madame de Staël
• 1984 – Jeanne Champion, Suzanne Valadon
• 1985 – Georges Poisson, Laclos ou l'Obstination
• 1986 – Jean Canavaggio, Cervantes
• 1987 – Michel Surya, Georges Bataille, la mort à l'œuvre
• 1988 – Frédéric Vitoux, La Vie de Louis-Ferdinand Céline
• 1989 – Joanna Richardson, Judith Gautier
• 1990 – Pierre Citron, Giono
• 1991 – Odette Joyeux, Le Troisième œil, la vie de Nicéphore Niepce
• 1992 – Philippe Beaussant, Lully
• 1993 – Jean Bothorel, Louise de Vilmorin
• 1994 – David Bellos, Georges Perec
• 1995 – Henry Gidel, Les Deux Guitry
• 1996 – Anka Muhlstein, Astolphe de Custine
• 1997 – Jean-Claude Lamy, Prévert, les frères
• 1998 – Christian Liger, Le Roman de Rossel
• 1999 – Claude Pichois and Alain Brunet, Colette
• 2000 – Dominique Bona, Berthe Morisot
• 2001 – Laure Murat, La maison du docteur Blanche
• 2002 – Jean-Paul Goujon, Une Vie Secrète (1870–1925); Mille lettres de Pierre Louÿs à Georges Louis (1890–1917)
• 2003 – Pierre Billard, Louis Malle
• 2004 – Claude Dufresne, Appelez-moi George Sand
• 2005 – Thibaut d'Anthonay, Jean Lorrain
• 2006 – Angie David, Dominique Aury
• 2007 – Patrice Locmant, Huysmans, le forçat de la vie
• 2008 – Jennifer Lesieur, Jack London
• 2009 – Viviane Forrester, Virginia Woolf
• 2010 – Michel Winock, Madame de Stael
• 2011 – Maurizio Serra, Malaparte, vies et légendes
• 2012 – David Haziot, Le Roman des Rouart
• 2013 – Pascal Mérigeau, Jean Renoir
• 2014 – Jean Lebrun, Notre Chanel[33]
• 2015 – Jean-Christophe Attias, Moïse fragile[34]
• 2016 – Philippe Forest, Aragon
• 2017 - Marianne and Claude Schopp, Dumas fils ou l'Anti-Œdipe
• 2018 - Denis Demonpion, Salinger intime
• 2019 - Frédéric Pajak, Manifeste incertain, volume 7: Emily Dickinson, Marina Tsvetaïeva, l'immense poésie

Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle

Goncourt Prize for short stories. Begun in 1974 in the form of scholarships. Awarded in partnership with the city of Strasbourg since 2001.

• 1974 – Daniel Boulanger, Fouette, cocher !
• 1975 – S. Corinna Bille, La Demoiselle sauvage
• 1976 – Antoine Blondin, Quat'saisons
• 1977 – Henri Gougaud, Départements et territoires d'outre-mort
• 1978 – Christiane Baroche, Chambres, avec vue sur le passé
• 1979 – Andrée Chedid, Le Corps et le Temps
• 1980 – Guy Lagorce, Les Héroïques
• 1981 – Annie Saumont, Quelquefois dans les cérémonies
• 1982 – René Depestre, Alléluia pour une femme-jardin
• 1983 – Raymond Jean, Un fantasme de Bella B.
• 1984 – Alain Gerber, Les Jours de vin et de roses
• 1985 – Pierrette Fleutiaux, Métamorphoses de la reine
• 1986 – Jean Vautrin, Baby-boom
• 1987 – Noëlle Châtelet, Histoires de bouche
• 1988 – Jean-Louis Hue, Dernières Nouvelles du Père Noël
• 1989 – Paul Fournel, Les Athlètes dans leur tête
• 1990 – Jacques Bens, Nouvelles désenchantées
• 1991 – Rafaël Pividal, Le Goût de la catastrophe
• 1992 – Catherine Lépront, Trois gardiennes
• 1993 – Mariette Condroyer, Un après-midi plutôt gai
• 1994 – Jean-Christophe Duchon-Doris, Les Lettres du baron
• 1996 – Ludovic Janvier, En mémoire du lit
• 1997 – François Sureau, Le Sphinx de Darwin
• 1999 – Elvire de Brissac, Les anges d'en bas
• 2000 – Catherine Paysan, Les Désarmés
• 2001 – Stéphane Denis, Elle a maigri pour le festival
• 2002 – Sébastien Lapaque, Mythologie Française
• 2003 – Philippe Claudel, Les petites mécaniques
• 2004 – Olivier Adam, Passer l'hiver
• 2005 – Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, Singe savant tabassé par deux clowns
• 2006 – Franz Bartelt, Le Bar des habitudes
• 2007 – Brigitte Giraud, L'Amour est très surestimé
• 2008 – Jean-Yves Masson, Ultimes vérités sur la mort du nageur
• 2009 – Sylvain Tesson, Une vie à coucher dehors
• 2010 – Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Concerto à la mémoire d'un ange
• 2011 – Bernard Comment, Tout passe
• 2012 – Didier Daeninckx, L'Espoir en contrebande
• 2013 – Fouad Laroui, L'Étrange Affaire du pantalon de Dassoukine
• 2014 – Nicolas Cavaillès, Vie de monsieur Leguat[35]
• 2015 – Patrice Franceschi, Première personne du singulier[36]
• 2016 – Marie-Hélène Lafon, Histoires
• 2017 – Raphaël Haroche, Retourner à la mer
• 2018 – Régis Jauffret, Microfictions 2018
• 2019 – Caroline Lamarche, Nous sommes à la lisière

Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman

Goncourt Prize for debut novel. Awarded in partnership with the municipality of Paris.

• 1990 – Hélène de Monferrand, Les amies d'Héloïse
• 1991 – Armande Gobry-Valle, Iblis ou la défroque du serpent
• 1992 – Nita Rousseau, Les iris bleus
• 1993 – Bernard Chambaz, L'arbre de vies
• 1994 – Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, Vétérinaires
• 1995 – Florence Seyvos, Les apparitions
• 1996 – Yann Moix, Jubilations vers le ciel
• 1997 – Jean-Christophe Rufin, L'abyssin
• 1998 – Shan Sa, Porte de la paix céleste
• 1999 – Nicolas Michel, Un revenant
• 2000 – Benjamin Berton, Sauvageons
• 2001 – Salim Bachi, Le chien d'Ulysse
• 2002 – Soazig Aaron, Le non-de Klara
• 2003 – Claire Delannoy, La guerre, l'Amérique
• 2004 – Françoise Dorner, La fille du rang derrière
• 2005 – Alain Jaubert, Val Paradis
• 2006 – Hédi Kaddour, Waltenberg
• 2007 – Frédéric Brun, Perla
• 2008 – Jakuta Alikavazovic, Corps volatils
• 2009 – Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Une éducation libertine
• 2010 – Laurent Binet, HHhH
• 2011 – Michel Rostain, Le Fils
• 2012 – François Garde, Ce qu'il advint du sauvage blanc
• 2013 – Alexandre Postel, Un homme effacé
• 2014 – Frédéric Verger, Arden[37]
• 2015 – Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation[38]
• 2016 – Joseph Andras, De nos frères blessés. Author declined the prize.[39]
• 2017 – Maryam Madjidi, Marx et la poupée[40]
• 2018 - Mahir Guven, Grand frère
• 2019 - Marie Gauthier, Court vêtue

Prix Goncourt de la Poésie

Goncourt Prize for poetry. Established through the bequest of Adrien Bertrand (Prix Goncourt in 1914). The award is for the poet's entire career work.

• 1985 – Claude Roy
• 1986 – postponed to 1987[41]
• 1987 – Yves Bonnefoy
• 1988 – Eugène Guillevic
• 1989 – Alain Bosquet
• 1990 – Charles Le Quintrec
• 1991 – Jean-Claude Renard
• 1992 – Georges-Emmanuel Clancier
• 1993 – not awarded[41]
• 1994 – not awarded[41]
• 1995 – Lionel Ray
• 1996 – André Velter
• 1997 – Maurice Chappaz
• 1998 – Lorand Gaspar
• 1999 – Jacques Réda
• 2000 – Liliane Wouters
• 2001 – Claude Esteban
• 2002 – Andrée Chedid
• 2003 – Philippe Jaccottet
• 2004 – Jacques Chessex
• 2005 – Charles Dobzynski
• 2006 – Alain Jouffroy
• 2007 – Marc Alyn
• 2008 – Claude Vigée
• 2009 – Abdellatif Laabi
• 2010 – Guy Goffette
• 2011 – Vénus Khoury-Ghata
• 2012 – Jean-Claude Pirotte
• 2013 – Charles Juliet
• 2014 – not awarded
• 2015 – William Cliff[42]
• 2016 – Le Printemps des Poètes
• 2017 – Franck Venaille
• 2018 – Anise Koltz
• 2019 – Yvon Le Men

Bourse Goncourt Jeunesse

Goncrout Prize for children's literature. Awarded in partnership with the municipality of Fontvieille. Discontinued after 2007.

• 1999 – Claude Guillot and Fabienne Burckel, Le fantôme de Shanghai
• 2000 – Eric Battut, Rouge Matou
• 2002 – Fred Bernard and François Roca, Jeanne and le Mokélé and Jesus Betz
• 2003 – Yvan Pommaux, Avant la Télé
• 2004 – Jean Chalon and Martine Delerm, Un arbre dans la lune
• 2005 – Natali Fortier, Lili Plume
• 2006 – Bernard du Boucheron and Nicole Claveloux, Un roi, une princesse and une pieuvre
• 2007 – Véronique Ovaldé and Joëlle Jolivet, La très petite Zébuline

Prix Goncourt des Lycéens

Main article: Prix Goncourt des Lycéens

See also

• Prix Renaudot – announced at the same ceremony as the Prix Goncourt, it has become something of a second-place prize.
• Prix Goncourt des Lycéens
• Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
• List of French literary awards

For a more comprehensive overview a list of literary awards is available.

Notes and references

Notes

1. Pseudonym of Émile Chénin
2. Awarded in 1916. See footnote.[14]
3. See footnote.[14]
4. Volume 2 of In Search of Lost Time
5. First foreigner to win Prix Goncourt.
6. Published and awarded in 1946 due to WWII.
   Non-fiction memoir.
7. Refused prize.
8. The translated editions from 1975 & 2012 are the same by Martin Sokolinsky.
9. The rules of the Prix Goncourt state that an author can win only once. Gary had already won in 1956 for Les racines du ciel. However, since La vie devant soi was published under the pseudonym Émile Ajar, the Académie Goncourt awarded the prize without knowing the author's true identity. Gary's cousin's son Paul Pavlowitch posed as the author for a time.

References

1. Unwin, Timothy (1997). "Introduction". The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel: From 1800 to the Present. Cambridge University Press. p. xxii. The 'big six' literary prizes in France have an extremely high profile and are, significantly, all awarded for novels. The best known and most prestigious is the Prix Goncourt. The other major literary prizes are the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Academie Francaise, the Prix Femina (awarded by a jury of women, though not necessarily to a female novelist), the Prix Renaudot, the Prix Interallie and the Prix Medicis.
2. Burke, David (2008). Writers in Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light. Counterpoint Press. p. 181. ISBN 9781593761578.
3. Glyn, Anthony (2000). The Companion Guide to Paris. Companion Guides. p. 98. ISBN 9781900639200.
4. Sally J. Scholz (2005). The Contradictions of Freedom: Philosophical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins. SUNY Press. p. 18. ISBN 9780791465608.
5. James F English (2009). The Economy of Prestige: prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value. Harvard University Press. p. 61. ISBN 9780674036536.
6. Hollier, Denis (1994). A New History of French Literature. Harvard University Press. p. 967. ISBN 9780674615663.
7. James F English (2009). The Economy of Prestige: prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value. Harvard University Press. p. 61. ISBN 9780674036536.
8. Rodic, Vesna (2008). Lyricism and Politics in Paul Valery's Poetry and Poetic Theory and in "La Nouvelle Revue Francaise", 1909–1939. ISBN 9781109096477.
9. Katherine Ashley (ed) (2004). "L'Attribution du prix Goncourt à Proust en 1919". Prix Goncourt, 1902–2003: essals critiques (in French). Bern: Peter Lang.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
10. Unwin, Timothy (1997). "The colonial and postcolonial Francophone novel". The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel: From 1800 to the Present. Cambridge University Press. p. 195.
11. Katherine Ashley (ed) (2004). Prix Goncourt, 1902–2003: essals critiques (in French). Bern: Peter Lang. p. 16. ISBN 9783039100187.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
12. Lapaque, Sébastien (16 September 1999). "Céline-Mazeline sur le ring". Le Figaro (in French). Missing or empty |url= (help)
13. Katherine Ashley (ed) (2004). "Avant propos". Prix Goncourt, 1902–2003: essals critiques (in French). Bern: Peter Lang.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
14. No award was given in 1914 due to the war. In 1916 two awards were given, one for 1916 (Barbusse) and one for 1914 (Bertrand).
15. Nène at IMDb
16. Raboliot at IMDb
17. Raboliot at IMDb
18. Un homme se penche sur son passé at IMDb
19. Les amants de rivière rouge at IMDb
20. L'Ordre at IMDb
21. Les grandes familles at IMDb
22. Léon Morin, prêtre at IMDb
23. Les eaux mêlées at IMDb
24. Quand la mer se retire at IMDb
25. Translated by David Dugan. The Dirty Goat, issue 18, pg. 170 Archived 14 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
26. La Nuit sacrée at IMDb
27. One Way Ticket at IMDb
28. Sources used for checking translations: OpenLibrary.org, Amazon.com, LibraryThing.com
29. Source used for checking films: imdb.com
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31. Les Goncourt surfent, Le Figaro, 29 January 2009
32. Autres prix décernés par l'Académie Goncourt: Lauréats
33. "Le Goncourt de la biographie à Jean Lebrun pour "Notre Chanel"". lepoint.fr (in French). AFP. 3 June 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
34. Eloy, Morgane (3 June 2015). "Jean-Christophe Attias, prix Goncourt de la biographie". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 3 July 2015.
35. Marie-Christine Imbault (4 March 2014). "Le Goncourt de la Nouvelle récompense Nicolas Cavaillès". livreshebdo.fr (in French). Retrieved 3 July 2015.
36. Auproux, Agathe (5 May 2015). "Le prix Goncourt de la nouvelle est attribué à Patrice Franceschi". livreshebdo.fr (in French). Retrieved 3 July 2015.
37. Dargent, Françoise (4 March 2013). "Frédéric Verger, Goncourt du premier roman". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 5 March 2014.
38. "Le Goncourt du premier roman 2015". Academie Goncourt. 5 May 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
39. John Dugdale (21 May 2016). "How to turn down a prestigious literary prize – a winner's guide to etiquette". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
40. "Le Goncourt du premier roman à Maryam Madjidi". Éditions Attila. 3 May 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
41. http://www.academie-goncourt.fr/?article=1358369616
42. Auproux, Agathe (5 May 2015). "Le prix Goncourt de la poésie Robert Sabatier est décerné à William Cliff". Livres Hebdo (in French). Retrieved 3 July 2015.