Week-end at Zuydcoote

{{Short description|1949 novel by Robert Merle}}

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| name = Week-end at Zuydcoote

| image = Week-end a Zuydcoote.jpg

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| caption = First edition

| author = Robert Merle

| title_orig = Week-end à Zuydcoote

| orig_lang_code = fr

| translator = K. Rebillon-Lambley

| country = France

| language = French

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| publisher = Gallimard, Collection Blanche

| pub_date = 1949

| english_pub_date = 1950

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| pages = 281

| awards = Prix Goncourt (1949)

| oclc = 2885103

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| congress = PQ2625.E5278 W4

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Week-end at Zuydcoote ({{Langx|fr|Week-end à Zuydcoote|italic=y|link=no}}; published as Weekend at Dunkirk in the United States) is a 1949 novel by French author Robert Merle, published in the Collection Blanche by Éditions Gallimard. It won the 1949 Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize. It was first published in English in 1950.{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/robert-merle-549687.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808152230/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/robert-merle-549687.html |title=Obituaries: Robert Merle |first=James |last=Kirkup |work=The Independent |date=2 April 2004 |archivedate=8 August 2011 |accessdate=3 August 2015}}

In 1964 the novel was adapted to a film called Weekend at Dunkirk (French: Week-end à Zuydcoote), directed by Henri Verneuil, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. The music for the film was composed by Maurice Jarre.