Prix Goncourt
| Prix Goncourt | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year" |
| Date | November, annual |
| Country | France |
| Presented by | Académie Goncourt |
| Reward(s) | €10 |
| First awarded | 1903 |
| Website | academie-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". 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.[1] The other major literary prizes include the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, the Prix Femina, the Prix Renaudot, the Prix Interallié and the Prix Médicis.[1]
History
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] Hervé Le Tellier's The Anomaly, which won the Goncourt in 2020, exceeded a million copies in less than a year after its publication.[6]
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.[7]
Controversies
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.[8]
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.[9][10] 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.[9][10]
In 1921, Rene Maran won the Goncourt with Batouala, veritable roman negre, the first French novel to openly criticize European colonialism in Africa.[11] The novel caused "violent reactions" and was banned in all the French colonies.[11]
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.[12] The voting process became the basis of the 1992 book Goncourt 32 by Eugène Saccomano.[13]
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.[14] The Académie Goncourt awarded the prize to Ajar without knowing his real identity.[14] 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.[14]
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.[15] 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.[16]
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.[17]
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 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.[18]
Winners
| Year | Author | French title | English title | Transl. year | Film title | Film year | Notes | Publisher (x time) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1903 | John Antoine Nau | Force ennemie | Enemy Force | 2010 | — | — | La Plume | ||
| 1904 | Léon Frapié | La Maternelle | — | — | La Maternelle | 1933 | Albin Michel | ||
| 1905 | Claude Farrère | Les Civilisés | — | — | — | — | Paul Ollendorff | ||
| 1906 | Jean and Jérôme Tharaud | Dingley, l'illustre écrivain | — | — | — | — | Édouard Pelletan | ||
| 1907 | Émile Moselly | Le Rouet d'ivoire and Jean des Brebis ou le livre de la misère | — | — | — | — | [n 1] | Plon | |
| 1908 | Francis de Miomandre | Écrit sur de l'eau... | — | — | — | — | Édition du Feu, later Émile-Paul Frères | ||
| 1909 | Marius-Ary Leblond | En France | — | — | — | — | Fasquelle | ||
| 1910 | Louis Pergaud | De Goupil à Margot | — | — | — | — | Mercure de France | ||
| 1911 | Alphonse de Châteaubriant | Monsieur des Lourdines | The Keynote | 1912 | Monsieur des Lourdines | 1943 | Grasset | ||
| 1912 | André Savignon | Les Filles de la pluie | — | — | — | — | Grasset (2) | ||
| 1913 | Marc Elder | Le peuple de la mer | — | — | — | — | Calmann-Lévy | ||
| 1914 | Adrien Bertrand | L'Appel du Sol | The Call of the Soil | 1919 | — | — | [n 2] | Calmann-Lévy (2) | |
| 1915 | René Benjamin | Gaspard | Private Gaspard | 1916 | — | — | Fayard | ||
| 1916 | Henri Barbusse | Le Feu | Under Fire | 1917 | — | — | [n 3] | Flammarion | |
| 1917 | Henry Malherbe | La Flamme au poing | The Flame That Is France | 1918 | — | — | Albin Michel (2) | ||
| 1918 | Georges Duhamel | Civilisation | Civilization | 1919 | — | — | Mercure de France (2) | ||
| 1919 | Marcel Proust | A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs | Within a Budding Grove | 1920 | — | — | [n 4] | Gallimard | |
| 1920 | Ernest Pérochon | Nêne | Nêne | 1920 | Nène[21] | 1924 | Plon (2) | ||
| 1921 | René Maran | Batouala | Batouala | 1921 | — | — | Albin Michel (3) | ||
| 1922 | Henri Béraud | Le vitriol de la lune and Le martyre de l'obèse | — | — | — | — | Albin Michel (4) | ||
| 1923 | Lucien Fabre | Rabevel ou Le mal des ardents | — | — | — | — | Gallimard (2) | ||
| 1924 | Thierry Sandre | Le Chèvrefeuille, le Purgatoire, le Chapitre XIII | — | — | — | — | Gallimard (3) | ||
| 1925 | Maurice Genevoix | Raboliot | — | — | Raboliot Raboliot[22] Raboliot[23] |
1946 1972 2008 |
Grasset (3) | ||
| 1926 | Henri Deberly | Le supplice de Phèdre | — | — | — | — | Gallimard (4) | ||
| 1927 | Maurice Bedel | Jérôme 60° latitude nord | Jerome: or, The Latitude of Love | 1928 | — | — | Gallimard (5) | ||
| 1928 | Maurice Constantin-Weyer | Un Homme se penche sur son passé | A Man Scans His Past | 1929 | Un homme se penche sur son passé[24] Les amants de rivière rouge[25] |
1958 1996 |
Rieder | ||
| 1929 | Marcel Arland | L'Ordre | — | — | L'Ordre[26] | 1985 | Gallimard (6) | ||
| 1930 | H. Fauconnier | Malaisie | The Soul of Malaya or Malaisie | 1931 | — | — | Stock | ||
| 1931 | Jean Fayard | Mal d'amour | Desire | 1931 | — | — | Fayard (2) | ||
| 1932 | Guy Mazeline | Les Loups | The Wolves | 1935 | — | — | Gallimard (7) | ||
| 1933 | André Malraux | La Condition humaine | Man's Fate | 1934 | — | — | Gallimard (8) | ||
| 1934 | Roger Vercel | Capitaine Conan | Captain Conan | 1935 | Capitaine Conan | 1996 | Albin Michel (5) | ||
| 1935 | Joseph Peyre | Sang et Lumières | — | — | — | — | Grasset (4) | ||
| 1936 | Maxence Van Der Meersch | L'Empreinte de Dieu | Hath Not the Potter | 1937 | — | — | Albin Michel (6) | ||
| 1937 | Charles Plisnier | Faux passeports | — | — | — | — | [n 5] | Corrêa | |
| 1938 | Henri Troyat | L'Araigne | — | — | — | — | Plon (3) | ||
| 1939 | Philippe Hériat | Les enfants gâtés | — | — | — | — | Gallimard (9) | ||
| 1940 | Francis Ambrière | Les grandes vacances | The Long Holiday | 1948 | — | — | [n 6] | Nouvelle France | |
| 1941 | Henri Pourrat | Vent de Mars | — | — | — | — | Gallimard (10) | ||
| 1942 | Marc Bernard | Pareil à des enfants | — | — | — | — | Gallimard (11) | ||
| 1943 | Marius Grout | Passage de l'Homme | When the Man Passed By | 1962 | — | — | Gallimard (12) | ||
| 1944 | Elsa Triolet | Le premier accroc coûte 200 Francs | A Fine of Two Hundred Francs | 1947 | — | — | Denoël | ||
| 1945 | Jean-Louis Bory | Mon village à l'heure allemande | — | — | — | — | Flammarion (2) | ||
| 1946 | Jean-Jacques Gautier | Histoire d'un Fait divers | — | — | — | — | Julliard | ||
| 1947 | Jean-Louis Curtis | Les Forêts de la Nuit | The Forests of the Night | 1950 | — | — | Julliard (2) | ||
| 1948 | Maurice Druon | Les grandes familles | The Rise of Simon Lachaume | 1952 | The Possessors Les grandes familles[27] |
1958 1989 |
Julliard (3) | ||
| 1949 | Robert Merle | Week-end à Zuydcoote | Week-end at Zuydcoote | 1950 | Weekend at Dunkirk | 1964 | Gallimard (13) | ||
| 1950 | Paul Colin | Les jeux sauvages | Savage Play | 1953 | — | — | Gallimard (14) | ||
| 1951 | Julien Gracq | Le Rivage des Syrtes | The Opposing Shore | 1986 | — | — | [n 7] | José Corti | |
| 1952 | Béatrix Beck | Léon Morin, prêtre | The Priest (UK), The Passionate Heart (US) | 1953 | Léon Morin, Priest Léon Morin, prêtre[28] |
1961 1991 |
Gallimard (15) | ||
| 1953 | Pierre Gascar | Les Bêtes | — | — | — | — | Gallimard (16) | ||
| 1954 | Simone de Beauvoir | Les Mandarins | The Mandarins | 1957 | — | — | Gallimard (17) | ||
| 1955 | Roger Ikor | Les eaux mêlées | — | — | Les eaux mêlées[29] | 1969 | Albin Michel (7) | ||
| 1956 | Romain Gary | Les racines du ciel | The Roots of Heaven | 1957 | The Roots of Heaven | 1958 | Gallimard (18) | ||
| 1957 | Roger Vailland | La Loi | The Law | 1958 | The Law | 1959 | Gallimard (19) | ||
| 1958 | Francis Walder | Saint-Germain ou la négociation | — | — | — | — | Gallimard (20) | ||
| 1959 | André Schwarz-Bart | Le dernier des Justes | The Last of the Just | 1960 | — | — | Seuil | ||
| 1960 | Vintilă Horia | Dieu est né en exil | God Was Born in Exile | 1961 | — | — | Fayard (3) | ||
| 1961 | Jean Cau | La pitié de Dieu | The Mercy of God | 1963 | — | — | Gallimard (21) | ||
| 1962 | Anna Langfus | Les bagages de sable | The Lost Shore | 1964 | — | — | Gallimard (22) | ||
| 1963 | Armand Lanoux | Quand la mer se retire | — | — | Quand la mer se retire[30] | 1963 | Julliard (4) | ||
| 1964 | Georges Conchon | L'Etat sauvage | — | — | The Savage State | 1978 | Albin Michel (8) | ||
| 1965 | Jacques Borel | L'Adoration | The Bond | 1968 | — | — | Gallimard (23) | ||
| 1966 | Edmonde Charles-Roux | Oublier Palerme | To Forget Palermo | 1968 | Dimenticare Palermo | 1990 | Grasset (5) | ||
| 1967 | André Pieyre de Mandiargues | La Marge | The Margin | 1970 | The Margin | 1976 | Gallimard (24) | ||
| 1968 | Bernard Clavel | Les fruits de l'hiver | The Fruits of Winter | 1969 | — | — | Robert Laffont | ||
| 1969 | Félicien Marceau | Creezy | Creezy | 1970 | Creezy | 1974 | Gallimard (25) | ||
| 1970 | Michel Tournier | Le Roi des Aulnes | The Erl-King (UK) or The Ogre (US) | 1972 | The Ogre | 1996 | Gallimard (26) | ||
| 1971 | Jacques Laurent | Les Bêtises | — | — | — | — | Grasset (6) | ||
| 1972 | Jean Carrière | L'Epervier de Maheux | — | — | — | — | Pauvert | ||
| 1973 | Jacques Chessex | L'Ogre | A Father's Love (1975) or The Tyrant (2012) | 1975 | — | — | [n 8] | Grasset (7) | |
| 1974 | Pascal Lainé | La Dentellière | A Web of Lace (1976) or The Lacemaker (2008)[31] | 1976 | The Lacemaker | 1977 | Gallimard (27) | ||
| 1975 | Émile Ajar (Romain Gary) | La vie devant soi | Momo (1978) or The Life Before Us (1986) | 1978 | Madame Rosa The Life Ahead |
1977 2020 |
[n 9] | Mercure de France (3) | |
| 1976 | Patrick Grainville | Les Flamboyants | — | — | — | — | Seuil (2) | ||
| 1977 | Didier Decoin | John l'enfer | — | — | — | — | Seuil (3) | ||
| 1978 | Patrick Modiano | Rue des boutiques obscures | Missing Person | 1980 | — | — | Gallimard (28) | ||
| 1979 | Antonine Maillet | Pélagie-la-Charrette | Pélagie: The Return to Acadie | 1982 | — | — | Grasset (8) | ||
| 1980 | Yves Navarre | Le Jardin d'acclimatation | Cronus' Children | 1986 | — | — | Flammarion (3) | ||
| 1981 | Lucien Bodard | Anne-Marie | — | — | — | — | Grasset (9) | ||
| 1982 | Dominique Fernandez | Dans la main de l'Ange | — | — | — | — | Grasset (10) | ||
| 1983 | Frédérick Tristan | Les égarés | The Lost Ones | 1991 | — | — | Balland | ||
| 1984 | Marguerite Duras | L'Amant | The Lover | 1986 | The Lover | 1992 | Minuit | ||
| 1985 | Yann Queffélec | Les Noces barbares | The Wedding | 1987 | The Cruel Embrace | 1987 | Gallimard (29) | ||
| 1986 | Michel Host | Valet de nuit | — | — | — | — | Grasset (11) | ||
| 1987 | Tahar Ben Jelloun | La nuit sacrée | The Sacred Night | 1989 | La Nuit sacrée[32] | 1993 | Seuil (4) | ||
| 1988 | Érik Orsenna | L'Exposition coloniale | Love and Empire | 1991 | — | — | Seuil (5) | ||
| 1989 | Jean Vautrin | Un grand pas vers le Bon Dieu | — | — | — | — | Grasset (12) | ||
| 1990 | Jean Rouaud | Les Champs d'honneur | Fields of Glory | 1992 | — | — | Minuit (2) | ||
| 1991 | Pierre Combescot | Les Filles du Calvaire | — | — | — | — | Grasset (13) | ||
| 1992 | Patrick Chamoiseau | Texaco | Texaco | 1998 | — | — | Gallimard (30) | ||
| 1993 | Amin Maalouf | Le Rocher de Tanios | The Rock of Tanios | 1994 | — | — | Grasset (14) | ||
| 1994 | Didier Van Cauwelaert | Un Aller simple | One-Way | 2003 | One Way Ticket[33] | 2001 | Albin Michel (9) | ||
| 1995 | Andreï Makine | Le Testament français | Dreams of My Russian Summers | 1998 | — | — | Mercure de France (4) | ||
| 1996 | Pascale Roze | Le Chasseur Zéro | — | — | — | — | Albin Michel (10) | ||
| 1997 | Patrick Rambaud | La Bataille | The Battle | 2000 | — | — | Grasset (15) | ||
| 1998 | Paule Constant | Confidence pour confidence | Trading Secrets | 2001 | — | — | Gallimard (31) | ||
| 1999 | Jean Echenoz | Je m'en vais | I'm Gone (US) or I'm Off (UK) | 2001 | — | — | Minuit (3) | ||
| 2000 | Jean-Jacques Schuhl | Ingrid Caven | Ingrid Caven | 2004 | — | — | Gallimard (32) | ||
| 2001 | Jean-Christophe Rufin | Rouge Brésil | Brazil Red | 2004 | — | — | Gallimard (33) | ||
| 2002 | Pascal Quignard | Les Ombres errantes | The Roving Shadows | 2011 | — | — | Grasset (16) | ||
| 2003 | Jacques-Pierre Amette | La maîtresse de Brecht | Brecht's Lover (US) or Brecht's Mistress (UK) | 2005 | — | — | Albin Michel (11) | ||
| 2004 | Laurent Gaudé | Le Soleil des Scorta | The House of Scorta (US 2006) The Scortas' Sun (UK 2007) | 2006 | — | — | Actes Sud | ||
| 2005 | François Weyergans | Trois jours chez ma mère | — | — | — | — | Grasset (17) | ||
| 2006 | Jonathan Littell | Les Bienveillantes | The Kindly Ones | 2009 | — | — | Gallimard (34) | ||
| 2007 | Gilles Leroy | Alabama Song | — | — | — | — | Mercure de France (5) | ||
| 2008 | 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 | Marie NDiaye | Trois femmes puissantes | Three Strong Women | 2012 | — | — | Gallimard (35) | ||
| 2010 | Michel Houellebecq | La Carte et le territoire | The Map and the Territory | 2012 | — | — | Flammarion (4) | ||
| 2011 | Alexis Jenni | L'Art français de la guerre | The French Art of War | 2017 | — | — | Gallimard (36) | ||
| 2012 | Jérôme Ferrari | Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome | The Sermon on the Fall of Rome | 2014 | — | — | Actes Sud (2) | ||
| 2013 | Pierre Lemaitre | Au revoir là-haut | The Great Swindle | 2015 | See You Up There | 2017 | Albin Michel (12) | ||
| 2014 | Lydie Salvayre | Pas pleurer | Cry, Mother Spain | 2016 | — | — | Seuil (6) | ||
| 2015 | Mathias Énard | Boussole | Compass | 2017 | — | — | Actes Sud (3) | ||
| 2016 | Leïla Slimani | Chanson douce | Lullaby (UK) The Perfect Nanny (USA) |
2018 | Perfect Nanny | 2019 | Gallimard (37) | ||
| 2017 | Éric Vuillard | L'Ordre du jour | The Order of the Day | 2018 | — | — | Actes Sud (4) | ||
| 2018 | Nicolas Mathieu | Leurs enfants après eux | And Their Children After Them | 2019 | And Their Children After Them | 2024 | Actes Sud (5) | ||
| 2019 | Jean-Paul Dubois | Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon | Not Everybody Lives the Same Way | 2022 | — | — | L'Olivier | ||
| 2020 | Hervé Le Tellier | L'Anomalie | The Anomaly | 2021 | — | — | Gallimard (38) | ||
| 2021 | Mohamed Mbougar Sarr | La plus secrète mémoire des hommes | The Most Secret Memory of Men | 2023 | — | — | [n 10] | Philippe Rey / Jimsaan | |
| 2022 | Brigitte Giraud | Vivre Vite | — | — | — | — | Flammarion (5) | ||
| 2023 | Jean-Baptiste Andrea | Veiller sur elle | — | — | — | — | L'Iconoclaste (1) | ||
| 2024 | Kamel Daoud | Houris | — | — | — | — | 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.[35][36] 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.[37]
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.
- 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[38]
- 2015 – Jean-Christophe Attias, Moïse fragile[39]
- 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
- 2021 – Pauline Dreyfous, Paul Morand
- 2022 - Jean-Pierre Langellier, Léopold Sédar Senghor
- 2023 - Claude Burgelin, Georges Perec
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[40]
- 2015 – Patrice Franceschi, Première personne du singulier[41]
- 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
- 2020 – Anne Serre, Au cœur d'un été tout en or
- 2021 – Shmuel T. Meyer, Et la guerre est finie...
- 2022 - Antoine Wauters, Le museé des contradictions
- 2023 - David Thomas, Partout les autres
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[42]
- 2015 – Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation[43]
- 2016 – Joseph Andras, De nos frères blessés. Author declined the prize.[44]
- 2017 – Maryam Madjidi, Marx et la poupée[45]
- 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
Prix Goncourt de la Poésie
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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.
- 1985 – Claude Roy
- 1986 – postponed to 1987[46]
- 1987 – Yves Bonnefoy
- 1988 – Eugène Guillevic
- 1989 – Alain Bosquet
- 1990 – Charles Le Quintrec
- 1991 – Jean-Claude Renard
- 1992 – Georges-Emmanuel Clancier
- 1993 – not awarded[46]
- 1994 – not awarded[46]
- 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[47]
- 2016 – Le Printemps des Poètes
- 2017 – Franck Venaille
- 2018 – Anise Koltz
- 2019 – Yvon Le Men
- 2020 – Michel Deguy
- 2021 – Jacques Roubaud[48]
- 2022 - Jean-Michel Maulpoix
- 2023 - Laura Vazquez
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
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
- ^ Pseudonym of Émile Chénin
- ^ Awarded in 1916. See footnote.[20]
- ^ See footnote.[20]
- ^ Volume 2 of In Search of Lost Time
- ^ First foreigner to win Prix Goncourt.
- ^ Published and awarded in 1946 due to WWII.
Non-fiction memoir. - ^ Refused prize.
- ^ The translated editions from 1975 & 2012 are the same by Martin Sokolinsky.
- ^ 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.
- ^ First winner of the Goncourt from Sub-Saharan Africa[34]
References
- ^ a b Unwin, Timothy (1997). "Introduction". The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel: From 1800 to the Present. Cambridge University Press. p. xxii. ISBN 9780521499149.
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.
- ^ a b c Burke, David (2008). Writers in Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light. Counterpoint Press. p. 181. ISBN 9781593761578.
- ^ Glyn, Anthony (2000). The Companion Guide to Paris. Companion Guides. p. 98. ISBN 9781900639200.
- ^ Sally J. Scholz (2005). The Contradictions of Freedom: Philosophical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins. SUNY Press. p. 18. ISBN 9780791465608.
- ^ James F English (2009). The Economy of Prestige: prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value. Harvard University Press. p. 61. ISBN 9780674036536.
- ^ Girgis, Dahlia (7 May 2021). "Un tirage total d'un million d'exemplaires pour "L'anomalie"". Livres Hebdo (in French). Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ Hollier, Denis (1994). A New History of French Literature. Harvard University Press. p. 967. ISBN 9780674615663.
- ^ James F English (2009). The Economy of Prestige: prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value. Harvard University Press. p. 61. ISBN 9780674036536.
- ^ a b Rodic, Vesna (2008). Lyricism and Politics in Paul Valery's Poetry and Poetic Theory and in "La Nouvelle Revue Francaise", 1909–1939. ISBN 9781109096477.
- ^ a b Ashley, Katherine, ed. (2004). "L'Attribution du prix Goncourt à Proust en 1919". Prix Goncourt, 1902–2003: essals critiques (in French). Bern: Peter Lang. ISBN 9783039100187.
- ^ a b 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. ISBN 9780521499149.
- ^ Ashley, Katherine, ed. (2004). Prix Goncourt, 1902–2003: essals critiques (in French). Bern: Peter Lang. p. 16. ISBN 9783039100187.
- ^ Lapaque, Sébastien (16 September 1999). Céline-Mazeline sur le ring (in French).
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- ^ Onishi, Norimitsu; Méheut, Constant (29 September 2021). "In Paris, It's Literary Scandal Season Again". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ "No lovers allowed in top French book prize after ethics scandal". France 24. Agence France-Presse. 5 October 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
- ^ "Prix Goncourt – Présentation". Académie Goncourt (in French). Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ^ Carreau, Nicolas (3 November 2021). "Goncourt : comment est remis le prix et qui est le favori cette année ?". Europe 1 (in French). Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ^ "Tous les lauréats". Académie Goncourt (in French). Retrieved 7 November 2021.
- ^ a b 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).
- ^ Nène at IMDb
- ^ Raboliot at IMDb
- ^ Raboliot at IMDb
- ^ Un homme se penche sur son passé at IMDb
- ^ Les amants de rivière rouge at IMDb
- ^ L'Ordre at IMDb
- ^ Les grandes familles at IMDb
- ^ Léon Morin, prêtre at IMDb
- ^ Les eaux mêlées at IMDb
- ^ Quand la mer se retire at IMDb
- ^ Translated by David Dugan. The Dirty Goat, issue 18, pg. 170 Archived 14 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ La Nuit sacrée at IMDb
- ^ One Way Ticket at IMDb
- ^ "Mohamed Mbougar Sarr wins Goncourt Prize, France's most prestigious literary award". France 24. 3 November 2021. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
- ^ Autres prix décernés par l'Académie Goncourt
- ^ Les Goncourt surfent, Le Figaro, 29 January 2009
- ^ Autres prix décernés par l'Académie Goncourt: Lauréats
- ^ "Le Goncourt de la biographie à Jean Lebrun pour "Notre Chanel"". lepoint.fr (in French). AFP. 3 June 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ Eloy, Morgane (3 June 2015). "Jean-Christophe Attias, prix Goncourt de la biographie". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ Marie-Christine Imbault (4 March 2014). "Le Goncourt de la Nouvelle récompense Nicolas Cavaillès". livreshebdo.fr (in French). Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ Auproux, Agathe (5 May 2015). "Le prix Goncourt de la nouvelle est attribué à Patrice Franceschi". livreshebdo.fr (in French). Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ Dargent, Françoise (4 March 2013). "Frédéric Verger, Goncourt du premier roman". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 5 March 2014.
- ^ "Le Goncourt du premier roman 2015". Academie Goncourt. 5 May 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Le Goncourt du premier roman à Maryam Madjidi". Le Monde.fr. Éditions Attila. 3 May 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
- ^ a b c "Academie Goncourt".
- ^ 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.
- ^ Gabinari, Pauline (4 May 2021). "Le Goncourt de la poésie Robert Sabatier 2021 couronne Jacques Roubaud". Livres Hebdo (in French). Retrieved 21 October 2021.