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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 to...
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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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    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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  • 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 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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    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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  • 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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    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 La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (lit. 'The Most Secret...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • The Rock of Tanios (category Prix Goncourt winning works)
    received the Prix Goncourt. 1993 in literature Contemporary French literature "Le Prix Goncourt". academie-goncourt.fr (in French). Académie Goncourt. Retrieved...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Pierre Lemaitre (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    Pierre Lemaitre (born 19 April 1951) is a Prix Goncourt-winning French author and a screenwriter, internationally renowned for the crime novels featuring...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • Meursault, contre-enquête won the 2015 Goncourt first novel prize, the 2014 Prix François-Mauriac and the 2014 Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie...
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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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    Michel Houellebecq (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    he published The Map and the Territory, which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt. In 2015, his next novel, Submission, sparked another controversy for...
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    André Malraux (category Prix Goncourt winners)
    affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate) (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as information minister...
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