prix Goncourt

{{Short description|French literary award}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}

{{Infobox award

| name = Prix Goncourt

| image = Prix Goncourt.jpg

| awarded_for = "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"

| reward = €10

| presenter = Académie Goncourt

| date = November, annual

| country = France

| year = 1903

| website = {{URL|https://academiegoncourt.com}}

}}

The Prix Goncourt ({{langx|fr|Le prix Goncourt}} {{IPA|fr|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". The prize carries a symbolic reward of only 10 euros, but results in considerable recognition and book sales for the winning author. 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.{{cite book|title=The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel: From 1800 to the Present |first=Timothy|last=Unwin |page=xxii |chapter=Introduction |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mIq99LRgKw8C&pg=PR22 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1997 |isbn=9780521499149|quote=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.}} The other major literary prizes include the {{Lang|fr|Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française|italic=no}}, the Prix Femina, the {{Lang|fr|Prix Renaudot|italic=no}}, the Prix Interallié and the Prix Médicis.

History

File:Edmond Goncourt - Schriftsteller.jpg]]

Edmond de Goncourt, a successful author, critic, and publisher, bequeathed his estate for the foundation and maintenance of the Académie Goncourt.{{cite book |title=Writers in Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light |first=David|last=Burke |publisher=Counterpoint Press |year=2008 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cSplzKidZ6AC&pg=PA181 |page=181|isbn=9781593761578}} 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. The jury that determines the winner meets at the Drouant restaurant in November to make its decision.{{cite book |title=The Companion Guide to Paris |first=Anthony|last=Glyn |url=https://archive.org/details/companionguideto0000glyn |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/companionguideto0000glyn/page/98 98] |publisher=Companion Guides |year=2000|isbn=9781900639200}} 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).

The award was initially established to provide talented new authors with a monetary award that would allow them to write a second book.{{cite book |title=The Contradictions of Freedom: Philosophical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins |author=Sally J. Scholz |publisher=SUNY Press |year=2005 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cfawyAOgNQoC&pg=PA18 |page=18|isbn=9780791465608 }} 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."{{cite book |title=The Economy of Prestige: prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value |author= James F English |page=61 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vY3UOFDA2sAC&pg=PA231 |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2009|isbn= 9780674036536 }} Hervé Le Tellier's The Anomaly, which won the Goncourt in 2020, exceeded a million copies in less than a year after its publication.{{Cite news |last=Girgis |first=Dahlia |date=7 May 2021 |title=Un tirage total d'un million d'exemplaires pour "L'anomalie" |language=fr |work=Livres Hebdo |url=https://www.livreshebdo.fr/article/un-tirage-total-dun-million-dexemplaires-pour-lanomalie |access-date=8 August 2021}}

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 {{Lang|fr|Prix Renaudot|italic=no}} is announced at the same ceremony as the Prix Goncourt. It has become known as something of a second-place prize.{{cite book | title=A New History of French Literature |first=Denis|last=Hollier |page=967 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nGQOodBVG9YC&pg=PA967 |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1994|isbn=9780674615663}}

=Controversies=

File:Prix Goncourt - Paris 3 novembre 2016 002.jpg 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.{{cite book |title=The Economy of Prestige: prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value |author= James F English |page=61 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vY3UOFDA2sAC&pg=PA61 |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2009|isbn= 9780674036536 }}

Some choices have been controversial, a famous example was Marcel Proust in 1919; it was met with indignation by the public since many believed that the prize should have gone to Roland Dorgelès for Les Croix de bois, a novel about the First World War.{{cite book |title=Lyricism and Politics in Paul Valery's Poetry and Poetic Theory and in "La Nouvelle Revue Francaise", 1909–1939 |first=Vesna |last=Rodic |year=2008 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SxE9rJeGkewC&pg=PA7|isbn=9781109096477}}{{cite book |title=Prix Goncourt, 1902–2003: essals critiques |editor-last=Ashley |editor-first=Katherine |publisher=Peter Lang |location=Bern |year=2004 |language=fr |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QA_rVRar1JkC&pg=PA77 |chapter=L'Attribution du prix Goncourt à Proust en 1919|isbn=9783039100187 }} 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.

In 1921, Rene Maran won the Goncourt with Batouala, veritable roman negre, the first French novel to openly criticize European colonialism in Africa. The novel caused "violent reactions" and was banned in all the French colonies.{{cite book|title=The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel: From 1800 to the Present |first=Timothy|last=Unwin |page=195 |chapter=The colonial and postcolonial Francophone novel |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mIq99LRgKw8C&pg=PA195 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1997|isbn=9780521499149}}

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.{{cite book |title=Prix Goncourt, 1902–2003: essals critiques |editor-last=Ashley |editor-first=Katherine |publisher=Peter Lang |location=Bern |year=2004 |language=fr |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QA_rVRar1JkC&pg=PA16|isbn=9783039100187 }} The voting process became the basis of the 1992 book Goncourt 32 by Eugène Saccomano.{{cite book |first=Sébastien|last=Lapaque |work=Le Figaro |date=16 September 1999 |title=Céline-Mazeline sur le ring |language=fr}}

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.{{cite book |title=Prix Goncourt, 1902–2003: essals critiques |editor-last=Ashley |editor-first=Katherine |publisher=Peter Lang |location=Bern |year=2004 |language=fr |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QA_rVRar1JkC&pg=PA16 |chapter=Avant propos|isbn=9783039100187 }} The Académie Goncourt awarded the prize to Ajar without knowing 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 truth in his posthumous book Vie et mort d'Émile Ajar.

In September 2021, the Goncourt attracted controversy after the jury decided, by a vote of 7 to 3, to include Les enfants de Cadillac by François Noudelmann on its 2021 list of finalists. Noudelmann is the partner of Camille Laurens, who is a member of the prize's jury. Laurens voted in favor of her partner's book.{{cite news |last1=Onishi |first1=Norimitsu |last2=Méheut |first2=Constant |title=In Paris, It's Literary Scandal Season Again |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/world/europe/france-literary-scandals.html |access-date=30 September 2021 |date=29 September 2021}} In October 2021, the Académie Goncourt ultimately decided that it will no longer allow lovers and family members of the jury to be entered for consideration.{{Cite news |date=5 October 2021 |title=No lovers allowed in top French book prize after ethics scandal |language=en |work=France 24 |agency=Agence France-Presse |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20211005-no-lovers-allowed-in-top-french-book-prize-after-ethics-scandal |access-date=4 November 2021}}

Selection and voting process

The Prix Goncourt is divided into three selection stages. The first selection is typically composed of fifteen finalists. The second selection is typically composed of eight finalists, narrowed down from the previous fifteen. A third and final selection leaves four finalists.{{Cite web |title=Prix Goncourt – Présentation |url=https://www.academiegoncourt.com/presentation-prix-goncourt |access-date=7 November 2021 |website=Académie Goncourt |language=fr}}

In the voting rounds, a maximum of fourteen rounds can be carried out. To begin the deliberation process, the names of the four finalists are placed in a champagne bucket. In turn, the names are taken out and each member of the jury votes aloud in favour of, or in opposition to, the writer. An absolute majority—more than half the votes cast—is required until the tenth round, then a simple majority is sufficient to designate a winner. If, after fourteen rounds, there is no winner, the president's vote counts as double to determine a majority vote. At 12:45{{nbsp}}p.m., the Secretary General, currently Philippe Claudel, appears in front of the crowd of journalists and announces the winner. The winner typically waits in a cafe near the Drouant so that they can arrive in time. The winner is interviewed by the media and is offered a symbolic check for ten euros.{{Cite web |last=Carreau |first=Nicolas |date=3 November 2021 |title=Goncourt : comment est remis le prix et qui est le favori cette année ? |url=https://www.europe1.fr/culture/goncourt-comment-est-remis-le-prix-et-qui-est-le-favori-cette-annee-4074896 |access-date=7 November 2021 |website=Europe 1 |language=fr}}

Winners

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|+ Prix Goncourt winners{{Cite web |title=Tous les lauréats |url=https://www.academiegoncourt.com/tous-les-laureats-prix-goncourt |access-date=7 November 2021 |website=Académie Goncourt |language=fr}}

Year

!

! Author

! French title

! English title

! Transl. year

! Film title

! Film year

! Notes

! Publisher (x time)

1903

| 40px

| {{sort |Nau, John Antoine |John Antoine Nau}}

| Force ennemie

| Enemy Force

2010

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| La Plume

1904

| 40px

| {{sort |Frapié, Léon |Léon Frapié}}

| La Maternelle

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| La Maternelle

| 1933

|

| Albin Michel

1905

| 40px

| {{sort |Farrère, Claude |Claude Farrère}}

| Les Civilisés

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Paul Ollendorff

1906

| 40px

| {{sort |Tharaud, Jérôme|Jean and Jérôme Tharaud}}

| Dingley, l'illustre écrivain

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Édouard Pelletan

1907

| 40px

| {{sort |Moselly, Émile |Émile Moselly}}

| Le Rouet d'ivoire and Jean des Brebis ou le livre de la misère

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{refn|Pseudonym of Émile Chénin|group=n}}

| Plon

1908

| 40px

| {{sort |Miomandre, Francis de |Francis de Miomandre}}

| Écrit sur de l'eau...

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Édition du Feu, later Émile-Paul Frères

1909

| 40px

| {{sort |Leblond, Marius-Ary |{{nowrap|Marius-Ary Leblond}}}}

| En France

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Fasquelle

1910

| 40px

| {{sort |Pergaud, Louis |Louis Pergaud}}

| De Goupil à Margot

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Mercure de France

1911

| 40px

| {{sort |Chateaubriant, Alphonse de |Alphonse de Châteaubriant}}

| Monsieur des Lourdines

| The Keynote

| 1912

| Monsieur des Lourdines

| 1943

|

| Grasset

1912

|

| {{sort |Savignon, André |André Savignon}}

| Les Filles de la pluie

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Grasset (2)

1913

|

| {{sort |Elder, Marc |Marc Elder}}

| Le peuple de la mer

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Calmann-Lévy

1914

|

| {{sort |Bertrand, Adrien |Adrien Bertrand}}

| L'Appel du Sol

| The Call of the Soil

| 1919

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{refn|Awarded in 1916. See footnote.|group=n}}

| Calmann-Lévy (2)

1915

|

| {{sort |Benjamin, René |René Benjamin}}

| Gaspard

| Private Gaspard

| 1916

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Fayard

1916

| 40px

| {{sort |Barbusse, Henri |Henri Barbusse}}

| Le Feu

| Under Fire

| 1917

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{refn|See footnote.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).|group=n}}

| Flammarion

1917

| 40px

| {{sort |Malherbe, Henry |Henry Malherbe}}

| La Flamme au poing

| The Flame That Is France

| 1918

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Albin Michel (2)

1918

| 40px

| {{sort |Duhamel, Georges |Georges Duhamel}}

| Civilisation

| Civilization

| 1919

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Mercure de France (2)

1919

| 40px

| {{sort |Proust, Marcel |Marcel Proust}}

| A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs

| Within a Budding Grove

| 1920

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{refn|Volume 2 of In Search of Lost Time|group=n}}

| Gallimard

1920

|

| {{sort |Pérochon, Ernest |Ernest Pérochon}}

| Nêne

| Nêne

| 1920

| Nène[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015186/ Nène] at IMDb

| 1924

|

| Plon (2)

1921

| 40px

| {{sort |Maran, René |René Maran}}

| Batouala

| Batouala

| 1921

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Albin Michel (3)

1922

| 40px

| {{sort |Béraud, Henri |Henri Béraud}}

| Le vitriol de la lune and Le martyre de l'obèse

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Albin Michel (4)

1923

| 40px

| {{sort |Fabre, L. |Lucien Fabre}}

| Rabevel ou Le mal des ardents

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Gallimard (2)

1924

| 40px

| {{sort |Sandre, Thierry |Thierry Sandre}}

| Le Chèvrefeuille, le Purgatoire, le Chapitre XIII

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Gallimard (3)

1925

| 40px

| {{sort |Genevoix, Maurice |Maurice Genevoix}}

| Raboliot

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| Raboliot
Raboliot[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335367/ Raboliot] at IMDb
Raboliot[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185008/ Raboliot] at IMDb

| 1946
1972
2008

|

| Grasset (3)

1926

| 40px

| {{sort |Deberly, H. |Henri Deberly}}

| {{nowrap|Le supplice de Phèdre}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Gallimard (4)

1927

| 40px

| {{sort |Bedel, Maurice |Maurice Bedel}}

| Jérôme 60° latitude nord

| Jerome: or, The Latitude of Love

| 1928

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Gallimard (5)

1928

|

| {{sort |Constantin-Weyer, Maurice |Maurice Constantin-Weyer}}

| Un Homme se penche sur son passé

| {{nowrap|A Man Scans His Past}}

| 1929

| Un homme se penche sur son passé[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138152/ Un homme se penche sur son passé] at IMDb
Les amants de rivière rouge[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0194621/ Les amants de rivière rouge] at IMDb

| 1958
1996

|

| Rieder

1929

| 40px

| {{sort |Arland, Marcel |Marcel Arland}}

| L'Ordre

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| L'Ordre[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278609/ L'Ordre] at IMDb

| 1985

|

| Gallimard (6)

1930

| 40px

| {{sort |Fauconnier, H. |H. Fauconnier}}

| Malaisie

| The Soul of Malaya or Malaisie

| 1931

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Stock

1931

| 40px

| {{sort |Fayard, Jean |Jean Fayard}}

| Mal d'amour

| Desire

| 1931

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Fayard (2)

1932

| 40px

| {{sort |Mazeline, Guy |Guy Mazeline}}

| Les Loups

| The Wolves

| 1935

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Gallimard (7)

1933

| 40px

| {{sort |Malraux, André |André Malraux}}

| La Condition humaine

| Man's Fate

| 1934

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Gallimard (8)

1934

| 40px

| {{sort |Vercel, Roger |Roger Vercel}}

| Capitaine Conan

| Captain Conan

| 1935

| Capitaine Conan

| 1996

|

| Albin Michel (5)

1935

| 40px

| {{sort |Peyre, Joseph |Joseph Peyre}}

| Sang et Lumières

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Grasset (4)

1936

| 40px

| {{sort |Van Der Meersch, Maxence |Maxence Van Der Meersch}}

| L'Empreinte de Dieu

| Hath Not the Potter

| 1937

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Albin Michel (6)

1937

|

| {{sort |Plisnier, Charles |Charles Plisnier}}

| Faux passeports

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{refn|First foreigner to win Prix Goncourt.|group=n}}

| Corrêa

1938

| 40px

| {{sort |Troyat, Henri |Henri Troyat}}

| L'Araigne

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Plon (3)

1939

| 40px

| {{sort |Hériat, Philippe |Philippe Hériat}}

| Les enfants gâtés

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Gallimard (9)

1940

|

| {{sort |Ambrière, Francis |Francis Ambrière}}

| Les grandes vacances

| The Long Holiday

| 1948

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{refn|Published and awarded in 1946 due to WWII.
Non-fiction memoir.|group=n}}

| Nouvelle France

1941

| 40px

| {{sort |Pourrat Henri |Henri Pourrat}}

| Vent de Mars

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Gallimard (10)

1942

| 40px

| {{sort |Bernard, Marc |Marc Bernard}}

| Pareil à des enfants

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Gallimard (11)

1943

|

| {{sort |Grout, Marius |Marius Grout}}

| Passage de l'Homme

| When the Man Passed By

| 1962

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Gallimard (12)

1944

| 40px

| {{sort |Triolet, Elsa |Elsa Triolet}}

| Le premier accroc coûte 200 Francs

| A Fine of Two Hundred Francs

| 1947

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Denoël

1945

| 40px

| {{sort |Bory, Jean-Louis |Jean-Louis Bory}}

| Mon village à l'heure allemande

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Flammarion (2)

1946

|

| {{sort |Gautier, Jean-Jacques |Jean-Jacques Gautier}}

| Histoire d'un Fait divers

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Julliard

1947

| 40px

| {{sort |Curtis, Jean-Louis |Jean-Louis Curtis}}

| Les Forêts de la Nuit

| The Forests of the Night

| 1950

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Julliard (2)

1948

| 40px

| {{sort |Druon, Maurice |Maurice Druon}}

| Les grandes familles

| The Rise of Simon Lachaume

| 1952

| The Possessors
Les grandes familles[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096600/ Les grandes familles] at IMDb

| 1958
1989

|

| Julliard (3)

1949

| 40px

| {{sort |Merle, Robert |Robert Merle}}

| Week-end à Zuydcoote

| Week-end at Zuydcoote

| 1950

| Weekend at Dunkirk

| 1964

|

| Gallimard (13)

1950

|

| {{sort |Colin, Paul |Paul Colin}}

| Les jeux sauvages

| Savage Play

| 1953

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Gallimard (14)

1951

|

| {{sort |Gracq, Julien |Julien Gracq}}

| Le Rivage des Syrtes

| The Opposing Shore

| 1986

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{refn|Refused prize.|group=n}}

| José Corti

1952

|

| {{sort |Beck, Béatrix |Béatrix Beck}}

| Léon Morin, prêtre

| The Priest (UK), The Passionate Heart (US)

| 1953

| Léon Morin, Priest
Léon Morin, prêtre[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251811/ Léon Morin, prêtre] at IMDb

| 1961
1991

|

| Gallimard (15)

1953

|

| {{sort |Gascar, Pierre |Pierre Gascar}}

| Les Bêtes

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Gallimard (16)

1954

| 40px

| {{sort |Beauvoir, Simone de |Simone de Beauvoir}}

| Les Mandarins

| The Mandarins

| 1957

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Gallimard (17)

1955

|

| {{sort |Ikor, Roger |Roger Ikor}}

| Les eaux mêlées

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| Les eaux mêlées[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0302520/ Les eaux mêlées] at IMDb

| 1969

|

| Albin Michel (7)

1956

|

| {{sort |Gary, Romain |Romain Gary}}

| Les racines du ciel

| The Roots of Heaven

| 1957

| The Roots of Heaven

| 1958

|

| Gallimard (18)

1957

|

| {{sort |Vailland, Roger |Roger Vailland}}

| La Loi

| The Law

| 1958

| The Law

| 1959

|

| Gallimard (19)

1958

|

| {{sort |Walder, Francis |Francis Walder}}

| Saint-Germain ou la négociation

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Gallimard (20)

1959

|

| {{sort |Schwarz-Bart, André |André Schwarz-Bart}}

| Le dernier des Justes

| The Last of the Just

| 1960

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| Seuil

1960

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| {{sort |Horia, Vintilă |Vintilă Horia}}

| Dieu est né en exil

| God Was Born in Exile

| 1961

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| Fayard (3)

1961

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| {{sort |Cau, Jean |Jean Cau}}

| La pitié de Dieu

| The Mercy of God

| 1963

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| Gallimard (21)

1962

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| {{sort |Langfus, Anna |Anna Langfus}}

| Les bagages de sable

| The Lost Shore

| 1964

| {{n/a}}

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| Gallimard (22)

1963

|

| {{sort |Lanoux, Armand |Armand Lanoux}}

| Quand la mer se retire

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| Quand la mer se retire[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414421/ Quand la mer se retire] at IMDb

| 1963

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| Julliard (4)

1964

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| {{sort |Conchon, Georges |Georges Conchon}}

| L'Etat sauvage

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| The Savage State

| 1978

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| Albin Michel (8)

1965

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| {{sort |Borel, Jacques |Jacques Borel}}

| L'Adoration

| The Bond

| 1968

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| Gallimard (23)

1966

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| {{sort |Charles-Roux, Edmonde |Edmonde Charles-Roux}}

| Oublier Palerme

| To Forget Palermo

| 1968

| Dimenticare Palermo

| 1990

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| Grasset (5)

1967

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| {{sort |Mandiargues, André Pieyre de |André Pieyre de Mandiargues}}

| La Marge

| The Margin

| 1970

| The Margin

| 1976

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| Gallimard (24)

1968

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| {{sort |Clavel, Bernard |Bernard Clavel}}

| Les fruits de l'hiver

| The Fruits of Winter

| 1969

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| Robert Laffont

1969

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| {{sort |Marceau Félicien |Félicien Marceau}}

| Creezy

| Creezy

| 1970

| Creezy

| 1974

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| Gallimard (25)

1970

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| {{sort |Tournier Michel |Michel Tournier}}

| Le Roi des Aulnes

| The Erl-King (UK) or The Ogre (US)

| 1972

| The Ogre

| 1996

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| Gallimard (26)

1971

|

| {{sort |Laurent Jacques |Jacques Laurent}}

| Les Bêtises

| {{n/a}}

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| Grasset (6)

1972

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| {{sort |Carrière Jean |Jean Carrière}}

| L'Epervier de Maheux

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| Pauvert

1973

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| {{sort |Chessex Jacques |Jacques Chessex}}

| L'Ogre

| A Father's Love (1975) or The Tyrant (2012)

| 1975

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{refn|The translated editions from 1975 & 2012 are the same by Martin Sokolinsky.|group=n}}

| Grasset (7)

1974

|

| {{sort |Lainé, Pascal |Pascal Lainé}}

| La Dentellière

| A Web of Lace (1976) or The Lacemaker (2008)Translated by David Dugan. [http://www.thedirtygoat.com/backissues/dg18.html The Dirty Goat, issue 18, pg. 170] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090614222535/http://www.thedirtygoat.com/backissues/dg18.html |date=14 June 2009 }}.

| 1976

| The Lacemaker

| 1977

|

| Gallimard (27)

1975

|

| {{sort |Ajar, Emile |Émile Ajar}} (Romain Gary)

| La vie devant soi

| Momo (1978) or The Life Before Us (1986)

| 1978

| Madame Rosa
The Life Ahead

| 1977
2020

| {{refn|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.|group=n}}

| Mercure de France (3)

1976

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| {{sort |Grainville, Patrick |Patrick Grainville}}

| Les Flamboyants

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| Seuil (2)

1977

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| {{sort |Decoin, Didier |Didier Decoin}}

| John l'enfer

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| Seuil (3)

1978

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| {{sort |Modiano, Patrick |Patrick Modiano}}

| Rue des boutiques obscures

| Missing Person

| 1980

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| {{n/a}}

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| Gallimard (28)

1979

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| {{sort |Maillet, Antonine |Antonine Maillet}}

| Pélagie-la-Charrette

| Pélagie: The Return to Acadie

| 1982

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Grasset (8)

1980

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| {{sort |Navarre, Yves |Yves Navarre}}

| Le Jardin d'acclimatation

| Cronus' Children

| 1986

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Flammarion (3)

1981

|

| {{sort |Bodard, Lucien |Lucien Bodard}}

| Anne-Marie

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| Grasset (9)

1982

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| {{sort |Fernandez, Dominique |Dominique Fernandez}}

| Dans la main de l'Ange

| {{n/a}}

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| Grasset (10)

1983

|

| {{sort |Tristan, Frédérick |Frédérick Tristan}}

| Les égarés

| The Lost Ones

| 1991

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Balland

1984

| 40px

| {{sort |Duras, Marguerite |Marguerite Duras}}

| L'Amant

| The Lover

| 1986

| The Lover

| 1992

|

| Minuit

1985

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| {{sort |Queffelec, Yann |Yann Queffélec}}

| Les Noces barbares

| The Wedding

| 1987

| The Cruel Embrace

| 1987

|

| Gallimard (29)

1986

|

| {{sort |Host, Michel |Michel Host}}

| Valet de nuit

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Grasset (11)

1987

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| {{sort |Jelloun, Tahar ben |Tahar Ben Jelloun}}

| La nuit sacrée

| The Sacred Night

| 1989

| La Nuit sacrée[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107714/ La Nuit sacrée] at IMDb

| 1993

|

| Seuil (4)

1988

| 40px

| {{sort |Orsenna Erik |Érik Orsenna}}

| L'Exposition coloniale

| Love and Empire

| 1991

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Seuil (5)

1989

|

| {{sort |Vautrin, Jean |Jean Vautrin}}

| Un grand pas vers le Bon Dieu

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Grasset (12)

1990

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| {{sort |Rouaud, Jean |Jean Rouaud}}

| Les Champs d'honneur

| Fields of Glory

| 1992

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Minuit (2)

1991

|

| {{sort |Combescot, Pierre |Pierre Combescot}}

| Les Filles du Calvaire

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Grasset (13)

1992

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| {{sort |Chamoiseau, Patrick |Patrick Chamoiseau}}

| Texaco

| Texaco

| 1998

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| {{n/a}}

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| Gallimard (30)

1993

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| {{sort |Maalouf, Amin |Amin Maalouf}}

| Le Rocher de Tanios

| The Rock of Tanios

| 1994

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Grasset (14)

1994

| 40px

| {{sort |Cauwelaert, Didier Van |Didier Van Cauwelaert}}

| Un Aller simple

| One-Way

| 2003

| One Way Ticket[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242981/ One Way Ticket] at IMDb

| 2001

|

| Albin Michel (9)

1995

| 40px

| {{sort |Makine Andreï |Andreï Makine}}

| Le Testament français

| Dreams of My Russian Summers

| 1998

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| {{n/a}}

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| Mercure de France (4)

1996

| 40px

| {{sort |Roze, Pascale|Pascale Roze}}

| Le Chasseur Zéro

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| {{n/a}}

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| {{n/a}}

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| Albin Michel (10)

1997

| 40px

| {{sort |Rambaud, Patrick |Patrick Rambaud}}

| La Bataille

| The Battle

| 2000

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Grasset (15)

1998

| 40px

| {{sort |Constant, Paule |Paule Constant}}

| Confidence pour confidence

| Trading Secrets

| 2001

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Gallimard (31)

1999

| 40px

| {{sort |Echenoz, Jean |Jean Echenoz}}

| Je m'en vais

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

| 2001

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Minuit (3)

2000

|

| {{sort |Schuhl, Jean-Jacques |Jean-Jacques Schuhl}}

| Ingrid Caven

| Ingrid Caven

| 2004

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Gallimard (32)

2001

| 40px

| {{sort |Rufin, Jean-Christophe |Jean-Christophe Rufin}}

| Rouge Brésil

| Brazil Red

| 2004

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Gallimard (33)

2002

| 40px

| {{sort |Quignard, Pascal |Pascal Quignard}}

| Les Ombres errantes

| The Roving Shadows

| 2011

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Grasset (16)

2003

|

| {{sort |Amette, Jacques-Pierre |Jacques-Pierre Amette}}

| La maîtresse de Brecht

| Brecht's Lover (US) or Brecht's Mistress (UK)

| 2005

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

|

| Albin Michel (11)

2004

| 40px

| {{sort |Gaudé, Laurent |Laurent Gaudé}}

| Le Soleil des Scorta

| The House of Scorta (US 2006) The Scortas' Sun (UK 2007)

| 2006

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Actes Sud

2005

|

| {{sort |Weyergans, François |François Weyergans}}

| Trois jours chez ma mère

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Grasset (17)

2006

| 40px

| {{sort |Littell, Jonathan |Jonathan Littell}}

| Les Bienveillantes

| The Kindly Ones

| 2009

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Gallimard (34)

2007

| 40px

| {{sort |Leroy, Gilles |Gilles Leroy}}

| Alabama Song

| {{n/a}}

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| Mercure de France (5)

2008

| 40px

| {{sort |Rahimi, Atiq|Atiq Rahimi}}

| Syngué Sabour: La pierre de patience

| Stone of Patience (UK) or The Patience Stone (US)

| 2010

| The Patience Stone

| 2012

|

| P.O.L

2009

| 40px

| {{sort |NDiaye, Marie|Marie NDiaye}}

| Trois femmes puissantes

| Three Strong Women

| 2012

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Gallimard (35)

2010

| 40px

| {{sort |Houellebecq, Michel|Michel Houellebecq}}

| La Carte et le territoire

| {{nowrap|The Map and the Territory}}

| 2012

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Flammarion (4)

2011

| 40px

| {{sort |Jenni, Alexis|Alexis Jenni}}

| L'Art français de la guerre

| The French Art of War

| 2017

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Gallimard (36)

2012

| 40px

| {{sort| Ferrari, Jérôme|Jérôme Ferrari}}

| Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome

| The Sermon on the Fall of Rome

| 2014

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Actes Sud (2)

2013

| 40px

| {{sort| Lemaitre, Pierre|Pierre Lemaitre}}

| Au revoir là-haut

| The Great Swindle

| 2015

| See You Up There

| 2017

|

| Albin Michel (12)

2014

| 40px

| {{sort| Salvayre, Lydie|Lydie Salvayre}}

| Pas pleurer

| Cry, Mother Spain

| 2016

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Seuil (6)

2015

| 40px

| {{sort|Énard, Mathias|Mathias Énard}}

| Boussole

| Compass

| 2017

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| Actes Sud (3)

2016

| 40px

| {{sort|Slimani, Leïla|Leïla Slimani}}

| Chanson douce

| Lullaby (UK)
The Perfect Nanny (USA)

| 2018

| Perfect Nanny

| 2019

|

| Gallimard (37)

2017

| 40px

| {{sort|Vuillard, Éric|Éric Vuillard}}

| L'Ordre du jour

| The Order of the Day

| 2018

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Actes Sud (4)

2018

| 40px

| {{sort|Mathieu, Nicolas|Nicolas Mathieu}}

| Leurs enfants après eux

| And Their Children After Them

| 2019

| And Their Children After Them

| 2024

|

| Actes Sud (5)

2019

| 40px

| {{sort|Dubois, Jean-Paul|Jean-Paul Dubois}}

| Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon

| Not Everybody Lives the Same Way

| 2022

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| {{n/a}}

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| L'Olivier

2020

| 40px

| {{sort|Tellier, Hervé|Hervé Le Tellier}}

| L'Anomalie

| The Anomaly

| 2021

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

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| Gallimard (38)

2021

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| {{sort|Mbougar Sarr, Mohamed|Mohamed Mbougar Sarr}}

| La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

| The Most Secret Memory of Men

| 2023

| {{n/a}}

| {{n/a}}

| {{refn|First winner of the Goncourt from Sub-Saharan Africa{{Cite news |date=3 November 2021 |title=Mohamed Mbougar Sarr wins Goncourt Prize, France's most prestigious literary award |language=en |work=France 24 |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20211103-mohamed-mbougar-sarr-wins-goncourt-prize-france-s-most-prestigious-literary-award |access-date=3 November 2021}}|group=n}}

| Philippe Rey / Jimsaan

2022

| 40px

| Brigitte Giraud

| Vivre Vite

| Live Fast

| 2025

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|Flammarion (5)

2023

| 40px

| Jean-Baptiste Andrea

| Veiller sur elle

| Watching Over Her

| 2025

| {{n/a}}

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|

|L'Iconoclaste (1)

2024

| 40px

| Kamel Daoud

| Houris

| {{n/a}}

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|

|Gallimard (39)

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.[https://www.academiegoncourt.com/?rubrique=1229172185 Autres prix décernés par l'Académie Goncourt][http://www.lefigaro.fr/livres/2009/01/29/03005-20090129ARTFIG00477-les-goncourt-surfent-.php Les Goncourt surfent], Le Figaro, 29 January 2009 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:

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!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.[https://www.academiegoncourt.com/?article=1229180726 Autres prix décernés par l'Académie Goncourt: Lauréats]

={{anchor|Prix Goncourt de la Biographie}} Prix Goncourt de la Biographie =

Goncourt Prize for biography. Awarded in partnership with the city of Nancy. The prize was renamed officially in 2017 the Prix Goncourt de la Biographie Edmonde Charles-Roux, after a former president of the Goncourt Academy.

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={{anchor|Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle}} 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.

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={{anchor|Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman}} Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman=

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

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  • 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{{cite web |url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/livres/2014/03/04/03005-20140304ARTFIG00239-frederic-verger-goncourt-du-premier-roman.php |language=fr |title=Frédéric Verger, Goncourt du premier roman |work=Le Figaro |first=Françoise|last=Dargent |date=4 March 2013 |access-date=5 March 2014}}
  • 2015 – Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation{{cite web |url=https://www.academiegoncourt.com/?rubrique=1229172884 |title=Le Goncourt du premier roman 2015 |publisher=Academie Goncourt |date=5 May 2015 |access-date=7 May 2015}}
  • 2016 – Joseph Andras, {{ill|De nos frères blessés|fr}}. Author declined the prize.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/21/how-turn-down-prestigious-literary-prize-winners-guide-etiquette |title=How to turn down a prestigious literary prize – a winner's guide to etiquette |work=The Guardian |author=John Dugdale |date=21 May 2016 |access-date=3 December 2016}}
  • 2017 – Maryam Madjidi, Marx et la poupée{{cite news | url =http://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2017/05/03/le-goncourt-du-premier-roman-a-maryam-madjidi-le-chanteur-raphael-recompense_5121622_3260.html |title = Le Goncourt du premier roman à Maryam Madjidi |newspaper = Le Monde.fr |publisher = {{ill|Éditions Attila|fr}}|date = 3 May 2017| access-date=3 May 2017}}
  • 2018 – Mahir Guven, Grand frère
  • 2019 – Marie Gauthier, Court vêtue
  • 2020 – Maylis Besserie, Le Tiers Temps
  • 2021 – Émilienne Malfatto, Que sur toi se lamente le Tigre
  • 2022 – Étienne Kern, Les envolés
  • 2023 – Pauline Peyarde, L'âge de détruire
  • 2024 – Eve Guerra, Rapatriement

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={{anchor|Prix Goncourt de la Poésie}} Prix Goncourt de la Poésie=

{{French literature sidebar}}

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. The prize was officially renamed in 2012 the Prix Goncourt de la Poésie Robert Sabatier, after the poet.

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={{anchor|Bourse Goncourt Jeunesse}} Bourse Goncourt Jeunesse=

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

=Prix Goncourt des Lycéens=

{{Main|Prix Goncourt des Lycéens}}

See also

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

Notes and references