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Prix Goncourt
Prix Goncourt.jpg
Awarded for
"the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"
Date
November, annual
Country
France
Presented by
Acadmie Goncourt
First awarded 1903
Official website
academie-goncourt.fr
The Prix Goncourt (French: Le prix Goncourt, IPA: [l pi ku], The Goncourt Prize) is a
prize in French literature, given by the acadmie Goncourt to the author of "the b
est and most imaginative prose work of the year". Four other prizes are also awa
rded: prix Goncourt du Premier Roman (first novel), prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle
(short story), prix Goncourt de la Posie (poetry) and prix Goncourt de la Biogra
phie (biography).
Contents
1 History
1.1 Controversies
2 Prix Goncourt
3 Other awards
3.1 Prix Goncourt de la Biographie
3.2 Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle
3.3 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman
3.4 Prix Goncourt de la Posie
3.5 Bourse Goncourt Jeunesse
4 See also
5 References
History
French literature
by category
French literary history
Medieval
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th century
Contemporary
French writers
Chronological list
Writers by category
Novelists
Playwrights
Poets
Essayists
Short story writers
Portals
France
Literature

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Edmond de Goncourt, a successful author, critic, and publisher, bequeathed his e
ntire estate for the foundation and maintenance of the acadmie Goncourt. In honou
r of his brother and collaborator, Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt (18301870), the
acadmie has awarded the Prix Goncourt every December since 1903. The jury that de
termines the winner meets at the Drouant restaurant to make its decision. The aw
ard, though nominal, ensures the winner celebrity status and a boost in sales. N
otable winners of the prize include Marcel Proust, Jean Fayard, Simone de Beauvo
ir, Georges Duhamel, Alphonse de Chteaubriant, and Antonine Maillet.
In 1987, the Prix Goncourt des Lycens was established, as a collaboration between
the acadmie 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 something of a second-place prize.
Controversies
Some decisions for awarding the prize have been controversial, the most famous c
ase 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 Dorgels for Les Croix de bois, a novel about the First World War. The
prize was supposed to be awarded to promising young authors, whereas Proust was
48 (Proust was a beginning author, though, which is the only eligibility require
ment for the prize, age being unimportant); and, this was immediately after the
end of the war, where Dorgels had fought, whereas Proust had been deemed unfit fo
r service for medical reasons (he had asthma).
The 1932 prize was controversial for passing up Cline, and the voting process bec
ame the basis of the 1992 book Goncourt 32 by Eugne Saccomano.
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 mile Ajar in 1975
for La vie devant soi. The Acadmie Goncourt awarded the prize to Ajar without kn
owing his real identity. A period of literary intrigue followed. Gary's cousin's
son Paul Pavlowitch posed as the author for a time. Gary later revealed the tru
th in his posthumous book Vie et mort d'mile Ajar.
Prix Goncourt
Prix Goncourt winners French year Author French title
English title
English year
Film title
Film year
Notes
1903
John Antoine Nau
Force ennemie Enemy Force
2010

1904

Lon Frapi

La Maternelle

La Maternelle 1933
1905
Claude Farrre Les Civiliss

1906

Jrme Tharaud Dingley, l'illustre crivain

1907
Emile Moselly
e de la misre

Le Rouet d'ivoire and Jean des Brebis ou le livr

Pseudonym of Emile Chnin.

1908
Francis de Miomandre

crit sur de l'eau...

1909

Marius-Ary Leblond

En France

1910

Louis Pergaud

De Goupil Margot

1911

Alphonse de Chteaubriant

Monsieur des Lourdines

Monsieur des Lourdines[1]

1943
1912
Andr Savignon Les Filles de la pluie

1913

Marc Elder

Le peuple de la mer

1914

Adrien Bertrand

L'Appel du Sol The Call of the Soil

1919

Awarded in 1916. See footnote.[2]

1915
Ren Benjamin Gaspard

Private Gaspard

1916

1916

Henri Barbusse Le Feu Under Fire

1917

See footnote.[2]
1917
Henry Malherbe La Flamme au poing
1918

The Flame That Is France

1918

Georges Duhamel

Civilisation

Civilization

1919

1919
Marcel Proust
Budding Grove 1920

A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs

Within a

Volume 2 of In Search of Lost Time

1920
Ernest Prochon
Nne
1921
Ren Maran
Batouala

Nne
1920
Batouala

Nne[3]
1921

1922

Henri Braud

Le vitriol de la lune and Le martyre de l'obse

1924

1923

Lucien Fabre

Rabevel ou Le mal des ardents

1924

Thierry Sandre Le Chvrefeuille, le Purgatoire, le Chapitre XIII

1925

Maurice Genevoix

Raboliot

Raboliot[4]
Raboliot[5]
Raboliot[6]
1946
1972
2008
1926
Henri Deberly

Le supplice de Phdre

The Peat-Cutters

1927

1927
of Love

Maurice Bedel
1928

Jrme 60 latitude nord

Jerome: or, The Latitude

1928
Maurice Constantin-Weyer
Un Homme se penche sur son pass
A Man Scans His Past
1929
Un homme se penche sur son pass[7]
Les amants de rivire rouge[8]
1958
1996
1929
Marcel Arland L'Ordre

L'Ordre[9]
1985
1930
H. Fauconnier

Malaisie

The Soul of Malaya or Malaisie

Mal d'amour

Desire 1931

1931

1931

Jean Fayard

1932

Guy Mazeline

Les Loups

The Wolves

1935

Andr Malraux

La Condition humaine

Man's Fate

1934

Capitaine Conan

Captain Conan

1935

1933

1934
Roger Vercel
Capitaine Conan
1996
1935
Joseph Peyre

Sang et Lumires

1936
the Potter

Maxence Van Der Meersch

1937

L'Empreinte de Dieu

Hath Not

1937

Charles Plisnier

Faux passeports

First foreigner to win Prix Goncourt.

1938
Henri Troyat
L'Araigne

1939

Philippe Hriat

Les enfants gts

Francis Ambrire

Les grandes vacances

1940
1948

Published and awarded in 1946 due to WWII.

The Long Holiday

Non-fiction memoir.
1941
Henri Pourrat

Vent de Mars

1942

Marc Bernard

Pareil des enfants

Marius Grout

Passage de l'Homme

1943

When the Man Passed By

1962

1944
Elsa Triolet
f Two Hundred Francs
1947

Le premier accroc cote 200 Francs

A Fine o

1945

Jean-Louis Bory

Mon village l'heure allemande

Jean-Jacques Gautier

Histoire d'un Fait divers

Jean-Louis Curtis
1950

Les Forts de la Nuit

1946

1947
he Night

1948

Maurice Druon

Les grandes familles

Les grandes familles[10]

1989

The Forests of t

1949
Robert Merle
Weekend at Dunkirk
1950
Paul Colin

1950

Week-end Zuydcoote
1964
Les jeux sauvages

Week-end at Zuydcoote

Le Rivage des Syrtes

The Opposing Shore

1951

Julien Gracq

1986

Refused
1952
Heart (US)
Lon Morin,
1991
1953

prize.
Batrix Beck
Lon Morin, prtre
1953
Lon Morin, Priest
prtre[11]
1961
Pierre Gascar

The Priest (UK), The Passionate

Les Btes

1954

Simone de Beauvoir

Les Mandarins

The Mandarins

1957

1955

Roger Ikor

Les eaux mles

Les eaux mles[12]

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 ngociation

1959
1960

Andr Schwarz-Bart

Le dernier des Justes

The Last of the

Just

1960

Vintil Horia

Dieu est n en exil

God Was Born in Exile

1961

1961

Jean Cau

La piti de Dieu

Anna Langfus

Les bagages de sable

Armand Lanoux

Quand la mer se retire

1962

1963

Quand la mer se retire[13]

1964
Georges Conchon

1963
L'Etat sauvage

L'tat sauvage[14]
1965
Jacques Borel

1978
L'Adoration

1966
Edmonde Charles-Roux
Oublier Palerme
To Forget Palerm
1968
Dimenticare Palermo
1990
1967
Andr Pieyre de Mandiargues
La Marge
The Margin
1970
The Margin[15] 1976
1968
Bernard Clavel Les fruits de l'hiver The Fruits of Winter
1969

1969

Flicien Marceau

Creezy

Creezy[16]
1974
1970
Michel Tournier
Le Roi des Aulnes
) or The Ogre (US)
1972
The Ogre
1996
1971
Jacques Laurent
Les Btises

The Erl-King (UK

1972

Jean Carrire

L'Epervier de Maheux

1973
rant (2012)

Jacques Chessex
1975

L'Ogre A Father's Love (1975) or The Ty

The translated editions from 1975 & 2012 are the same by Martin Sokolins
ky.
1974
Pascal Lain
La Dentellire A Web of Lace (1976) or The Lace
maker(?) (2008(?))[17] 1976
The Lacemaker 1977
1975
Emile Ajar (Romain Gary)
La vie devant soi
Momo (19
78) or The Life Before Us (1986)
1978
Madame Rosa
1977
1976
Patrick Grainville
Les Flamboyants

1977

Didier Decoin

John l'enfer

1978
Person 1980

Patrick Modiano

Rue des boutiques obscures

Antonine Maillet
1982

Plagie la Charette

Missing

1979
n to Acadie

1980

Yves Navarre

Le Jardin d'acclimatation

Plagie: The Retur

1981

Lucien Bodard

Anne Marie

1982

Dominique Fernandez

Dans la main de l'Ange

Frdrick Tristan

Les gars

1983

The Lost Ones

1991

The Lover

1986

The Wedding

1987

1984
Marguerite Duras
L'Amant
The Lover
1992
1985
Yann Quefflec Les Noces barbares
The Cruel Embrace[18] 1987
1986
Michel Host
Valet de nuit

1987
Tahar Ben Jelloun
La Nuit sacre The Sacred Night
La Nuit sacre[19]
1993
1988
rik Orsenna
L'Exposition coloniale

1989

1989

Jean Vautrin

Un grand pas vers le Bon Dieu


1990

Jean Rouaud

Les Champs d'honneur

Fields of Glory

1992

1991

Pierre Combescot

Les Filles du Calvaire

Patrick Chamoiseau

Texaco Texaco 1998

1992

1993

Amin Maalouf

Le Rocher de Tanios

The Rock of Tanios

1994

1994
Didier Van Cauwelaert Un Aller simple
One-Way
One Way Ticket[20]
2001
1995
Andre Makine Le Testament franais Dreams of My Russian Sum
mers
1998

2003

1996

Pascale Roze

Le Chasseur Zro

1997

Patrick Rambaud

La Bataille

The Battle

1998

Paule Constant Confidence pour confidence

2000

1999

Jean Echenoz

Je m'en vais

I'm Gone (US) or I'm Off (UK)

2001

2000

Jean-Jacques Schuhl

Ingrid Caven

Ingrid Caven

2004

Jean-Christophe Rufin

Rouge Brsil

Brazil Red

2004

Pascal Quignard

Les Ombres errantes

2001

2002
2011

ws

The Roving Shado

2003
Jacques-Pierre Amette
US) or Brecht's Mistress (UK) 2005

La matresse de Brecht Brecht's Lover (

2004
Laurent Gaud Le Soleil des Scorta
2006) The Scortas' Sun (UK 2007)
2006

The House of Scorta (US

2005

Franois Weyergans

Trois jours chez ma mre

Jonathan Littell

Les Bienveillantes

2006

The Kindly Ones

2009

2007

Gilles Leroy

Alabama song

2008
Atiq Rahimi
Syngu Sabour: La pierre de patience
Patience (UK) or The Patience Stone (US)
2010

Stone of

en

2009
2012

Marie NDiaye

Trois femmes puissantes

Three Strong Wom

2010
Michel Houellebecq
and the Territory
2012

La Carte et le territoire

The Map

2011

Alexis Jenni

L'Art franais de la guerre

2012

Jrme Ferrari Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome

Notes
Translations full audit: March 2009[21]
Films full audit: February 2011[22]
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 awar
ds, for first novel, short story, biography and poetry.
As of March 2009, the acadmie changed the award name by dropping "bourses" ("scho
larship") from the title.[23][24] The prefix "prix" can be included or not, such
as "Prix Goncourt de la Posie" (Goncourt prize for Poetry) or "Goncourt de la Pos
ie" (Goncourt of Poetry). For example: "Claude Vige was awarded a Goncourt de la
Posie in 2008". Or, "Claude Vige won the 2008 prix Goncourt de la Posie".
The award titles are:
Pre-2009 award name
Post-2009 award name
Category
Bourse Goncourt de la Biographie
Prix Goncourt de la Biographie Biograph
y
Bourse Goncourt de la Nouvelle Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle
Short story

Bourse Goncourt du Premier Roman

Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman Debut no
vel
Bourse Goncourt de la Posie
Prix Goncourt de la Posie
Poetry
Bourse Goncourt Jeunesse
discontinued
Juvenile
The winners are listed below.[25]
Prix Goncourt de la Biographie
Goncourt Prize for biography. Awarded in partnership with the city of Nancy.
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 Secrte ( 1870-1925 ); Mille lettres de Pierr
e Lous 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 forat 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 lgendes
2012 - David Haziot, Le Roman des Rouart
Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle
Goncourt Prize for short stories. Begun in 1974 in the form of scholarships. Awa
rded in partnership with the city of Strasbourg since 2001.
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1996
1997
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004

Daniel Boulanger, Fouette, cocher !

S. Corinna Bille, La Demoiselle sauvage
Antoine Blondin, Quat'saisons
Henri Gougaud, Dpartements et territoires d'outre-mort
Christiane Baroche, Chambres, avec vue sur le pass
Andre Chedid, Le Corps et le Temps
Guy Lagorce, Les Hroques
Annie Saumont, Quelquefois dans les crmonies
Ren Depestre, Allluia pour une femme-jardin
Raymond Jean, Un fantasme de Bella B.
Alain Gerber, Les Jours de vin et de roses
Pierrette Fleutiaux, Mtamorphoses de la reine
Jean Vautrin, Baby-boom
Nolle Chtelet, Histoires de bouche
Jean-Louis Hue, Dernires Nouvelles du Pre Nol
Paul Fournel, Les Athltes dans leur tte
Jacques Bens, Nouvelles dsenchantes
Rafal Pividal, Le Got de la catastrophe
Catherine Lpront, Trois gardiennes
Mariette Condroyer, Un aprs-midi plutt gai
Jean-Christophe Duchon-Doris, Les Lettres du baron
Ludovic Janvier, En mmoire du lit
Franois Sureau, Le Sphinx de Darwin
Elvire de Brissac, Les anges d'en bas
Catherine Paysan, Les Dsarms
Stphane Denis, Elle a maigri pour le festival
Sbastien Lapaque, Mythologie Franaise
Philippe Claudel, Les petites mcaniques
Olivier Adam, Passer l'hiver

2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012

Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud, Singe savant tabass par deux clowns

Franz Bartelt, Le Bar des habitudes
Brigitte Giraud, L'Amour est trs surestim
Jean-Yves Masson, Ultimes vrits sur la mort du nageur
Sylvain Tesson, Une vie coucher dehors
ric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Concerto la mmoire d'un ange
Bernard Comment, Tout passe
Didier Daeninckx, L'Espoir en contrebande

Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman

Goncourt Prize for debut novel. Awarded in partnership with the municipality of
Paris.
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012

Hlne de Monferrand, Les amies d'Hlose

Armande Gobry-Valle, Iblis ou la dfroque du serpent
Nita Rousseau, Les iris bleus
Bernard Chambaz, L'arbre de vies
Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, Vtrinaires
Florence Seyvos, Les apparitions
Yann Moix, Jubilations vers le ciel
Jean-Christophe Rufin, L'abyssin
Shan Sa, Porte de la paix cleste
Nicolas Michel, Un revenant
Benjamin Berton, Sauvageons
Salim Bachi, Le chien d'Ulysse
Soazig Aaron, Le non de Klara
Claire Delannoy, La guerre, l'Amrique
Franoise Dorner, La fille du rang derrire
Alain Jaubert, Val Paradis
Hdi Kaddour, Waltenberg
Frdric Brun, Perla
Jakuta Alikavazovic, Corps volatils
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Une ducation libertine
Laurent Binet, HHhH
Michel Rostain, Le Fils
Franois Garde, Ce qu'il advint du sauvage blanc

Prix Goncourt de la Posie

Goncourt Prize for poetry. Established through the bequest of Adrien Bertrand (P
rix Goncourt in 1914). The award is for the poet's entire career work.
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001

Claude Roy
Yves Bonnefoy
Eugne Guillevic
Alain Bosquet
Charles Le Quintrec
Jean-Claude Renard
Georges-Emmanuel Clancier
Lionel Ray
Andr Velter
Maurice Chappaz
Lorand Gaspar
Jacques Rda
Liliane Wouters
Claude Esteban

2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011

Andre Chedid
Philippe Jaccottet
Jacques Chessex
Charles Dobzynski
Alain Jouffroy
Marc Alyn
Claude Vige
Abdellatif Laabi
Guy Goffette
Vnus Khoury-Ghata

Bourse Goncourt Jeunesse

Goncrout Prize for children's literature. Awarded in partnership with the munici
pality of Fontvieille. Discontinued after 2007.
1999 - Claude Guillot and Fabienne Burckel, Le fantme de Shanghai
2000 - Eric Battut, Rouge Matou
2002 - Fred Bernard and Franois Roca, Jeanne and le Mokl and Jesus Betz
2003 - Yvan Pommaux, Avant la Tl
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 - Vronique Ovald and Jolle Jolivet, La trs petite Zbuline