Prix Goncourt

The Prix Goncourt (Template:Langx Template:IPA, "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.<ref name="Unwin 1997b">Template:Cite book</ref> The other major literary prizes include the Template:Lang, the Prix Femina, the Template:Lang, the Prix Interallié and the Prix Médicis.<ref name="Unwin 1997b"/>

History

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Edmond de Goncourt

Edmond de Goncourt, a successful author, critic, and publisher, bequeathed his estate for the foundation and maintenance of the Académie Goncourt.<ref name="Burke">Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref name="Burke"/> The jury that determines the winner meets at the Drouant restaurant in November to make its decision.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 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).<ref name="Burke"/>

The award was initially established to provide talented new authors with a monetary award that would allow them to write a second book.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 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."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Hervé Le Tellier's The Anomaly, which won the Goncourt in 2020, exceeded a million copies in less than a year after its publication.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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 Template:Lang is announced at the same ceremony as the Prix Goncourt. It has become known as something of a second-place prize.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Controversies

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Journalists at Le Drouant 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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.<ref name="Rodic">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Ashley 2004a">Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref name="Rodic"/><ref name="Ashley 2004a"/>

In 1921, Rene Maran won the Goncourt with Batouala, veritable roman negre, the first French novel to openly criticize European colonialism in Africa.<ref name="Unwin 1997a"/> The novel caused "violent reactions" and was banned in all the French colonies.<ref name="Unwin 1997a">Template:Cite book</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The voting process became the basis of the 1992 book Goncourt 32 by Eugène Saccomano.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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.<ref name="Ashley 2004b">Template:Cite book</ref> The Académie Goncourt awarded the prize to Ajar without knowing his real identity.<ref name="Ashley 2004b"/> 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.<ref name="Ashley 2004b"/>

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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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 12:45Template:Nbspp.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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Winners

Prix Goncourt winners<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Year		Author	French title	English title	Transl. year	Film title	Film year	Notes	Publisher (x time)
1903	File:John-Antoine Nau.jpg	Template:Sort	Force ennemie	Enemy Force	2010	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		La Plume
1904	File:Léon Frapié.jpg	Template:Sort	La Maternelle	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	La Maternelle	1933		Albin Michel
1905	File:Claude Farrère 1923.jpg	Template:Sort	Les Civilisés	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Paul Ollendorff
1906	File:Jean et Jérôme Tharaud 1923.jpg	Template:Sort	Dingley, l'illustre écrivain	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Édouard Pelletan
1907	File:Emile Moselly-01.jpg	Template:Sort	Le Rouet d'ivoire and Jean des Brebis ou le livre de la misère	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:Refn	Plon
1908	File:Francis de Miomandre.jpg	Template:Sort	Écrit sur de l'eau...	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Édition du Feu, later Émile-Paul Frères
1909	File:Touche à tout 1910 Ary et Marius Leblond par Henri Manuel.jpg	Template:Sort	En France	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Fasquelle
1910	File:Louis Pergaud.jpg	Template:Sort	De Goupil à Margot	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Mercure de France
1911	File:Chateaubriant, Alphonse.jpg	Template:Sort	Monsieur des Lourdines	The Keynote	1912	Monsieur des Lourdines	1943		Grasset
1912		Template:Sort	Les Filles de la pluie	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Grasset (2)
1913		Template:Sort	Le peuple de la mer	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Calmann-Lévy
1914		Template:Sort	L'Appel du Sol	The Call of the Soil	1919	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:Refn	Calmann-Lévy (2)
1915		Template:Sort	Gaspard	Private Gaspard	1916	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Fayard
1916	File:Henri-Barbusse.jpg	Template:Sort	Le Feu	Under Fire	1917	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:Refn	Flammarion
1917	File:Henry Malherbe.jpg	Template:Sort	La Flamme au poing	The Flame That Is France	1918	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Albin Michel (2)
1918	File:Georges Duhamel 1930.jpg	Template:Sort	Civilisation	Civilization	1919	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Mercure de France (2)
1919	File:Marcel Proust 1895.jpg	Template:Sort	A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs	Within a Budding Grove	1920	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:Refn	Gallimard
1920		Template:Sort	Nêne	Nêne	1920	Nène<ref>Nène at IMDb</ref>	1924		Plon (2)
1921	File:René Maran-1930.jpg	Template:Sort	Batouala	Batouala	1921	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Albin Michel (3)
1922	File:Henri Béraud.jpg	Template:Sort	Le vitriol de la lune and Le martyre de l'obèse	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Albin Michel (4)
1923	File:Fabre, Lucien (1889-1952) -- Portraits (cropped).JPEG	Template:Sort	Rabevel ou Le mal des ardents	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (2)
1924	File:Thierry Sandre, photographie agence Rol, 1924.png	Template:Sort	Le Chèvrefeuille, le Purgatoire, le Chapitre XIII	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (3)
1925	File:MG Portrait au trait.jpg	Template:Sort	Raboliot	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Raboliot Raboliot<ref>Raboliot at IMDb</ref> Raboliot<ref>Raboliot at IMDb</ref>	1946 1972 2008		Grasset (3)
1926	File:Henri Deberly redux.jpg	Template:Sort	Template:Nowrap	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (4)
1927	File:Maurice Bedel 1927.jpg	Template:Sort	Jérôme 60° latitude nord	Jerome: or, The Latitude of Love	1928	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (5)
1928		Template:Sort	Un Homme se penche sur son passé	Template:Nowrap	1929	Un homme se penche sur son passé<ref>Un homme se penche sur son passé at IMDb</ref> Les amants de rivière rouge<ref>Les amants de rivière rouge at IMDb</ref>	1958 1996		Rieder
1929	File:Marcel Arland - 1929.jpg	Template:Sort	L'Ordre	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	L'Ordre<ref>L'Ordre at IMDb</ref>	1985		Gallimard (6)
1930	File:Henri Fauconnier redux.jpg	Template:Sort	Malaisie	The Soul of Malaya or Malaisie	1931	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Stock
1931	File:Jean Fayard redux.jpg	Template:Sort	Mal d'amour	Desire	1931	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Fayard (2)
1932	File:Guy Mazeline 1932.jpg	Template:Sort	Les Loups	The Wolves	1935	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (7)
1933	File:André Malraux redux.jpg	Template:Sort	La Condition humaine	Man's Fate	1934	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (8)
1934	File:Roger Vercel 1934.jpg	Template:Sort	Capitaine Conan	Captain Conan	1935	Capitaine Conan	1996		Albin Michel (5)
1935	File:Joseph Peyré 1935.jpg	Template:Sort	Sang et Lumières	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Grasset (4)
1936	File:Maxence Van der Meersch 1936.jpg	Template:Sort	L'Empreinte de Dieu	Hath Not the Potter	1937	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Albin Michel (6)
1937		Template:Sort	Faux passeports	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:Refn	Corrêa
1938	File:Troyat Harcourt 1943.jpg	Template:Sort	L'Araigne	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Plon (3)
1939	File:Philippe Heriat redux.JPG	Template:Sort	Les enfants gâtés	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (9)
1940		Template:Sort	Les grandes vacances	The Long Holiday	1948	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:Refn	Nouvelle France
1941	File:Henri Pourrat, le Vernet, 1954.png	Template:Sort	Vent de Mars	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (10)
1942	File:Marc Bernard 1934.jpg	Template:Sort	Pareil à des enfants	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (11)
1943		Template:Sort	Passage de l'Homme	When the Man Passed By	1962	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (12)
1944	File:Elsa-triolet-1925.jpg	Template:Sort	Le premier accroc coûte 200 Francs	A Fine of Two Hundred Francs	1947	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Denoël
1945	File:Jean-Louis Bory redux.jpg	Template:Sort	Mon village à l'heure allemande	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Flammarion (2)
1946		Template:Sort	Histoire d'un Fait divers	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Julliard
1947	File:Curtis Harcourt 1947 2.jpg	Template:Sort	Les Forêts de la Nuit	The Forests of the Night	1950	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Julliard (2)
1948	File:Maurice Druon redux.jpg	Template:Sort	Les grandes familles	The Rise of Simon Lachaume	1952	The Possessors Les grandes familles<ref>Les grandes familles at IMDb</ref>	1958 1989		Julliard (3)
1949	File:Robert Merle (1964).JPG	Template:Sort	Week-end à Zuydcoote	Week-end at Zuydcoote	1950	Weekend at Dunkirk	1964		Gallimard (13)
1950		Template:Sort	Les jeux sauvages	Savage Play	1953	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (14)
1951		Template:Sort	Le Rivage des Syrtes	The Opposing Shore	1986	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:Refn	José Corti
1952		Template:Sort	Léon Morin, prêtre	The Priest (UK), The Passionate Heart (US)	1953	Léon Morin, Priest Léon Morin, prêtre<ref>Léon Morin, prêtre at IMDb</ref>	1961 1991		Gallimard (15)
1953		Template:Sort	Les Bêtes	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (16)
1954	File:Simone de Beauvoir2.png	Template:Sort	Les Mandarins	The Mandarins	1957	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (17)
1955		Template:Sort	Les eaux mêlées	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Les eaux mêlées<ref>Les eaux mêlées at IMDb</ref>	1969		Albin Michel (7)
1956		Template:Sort	Les racines du ciel	The Roots of Heaven	1957	The Roots of Heaven	1958		Gallimard (18)
1957		Template:Sort	La Loi	The Law	1958	The Law	1959		Gallimard (19)
1958		Template:Sort	Saint-Germain ou la négociation	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (20)
1959		Template:Sort	Le dernier des Justes	The Last of the Just	1960	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Seuil
1960		Template:Sort	Dieu est né en exil	God Was Born in Exile	1961	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Fayard (3)
1961		Template:Sort	La pitié de Dieu	The Mercy of God	1963	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (21)
1962	File:Anna Langfus.jpg	Template:Sort	Les bagages de sable	The Lost Shore	1964	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (22)
1963		Template:Sort	Quand la mer se retire	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Quand la mer se retire<ref>Quand la mer se retire at IMDb</ref>	1963		Julliard (4)
1964	File:Georges conchon.jpg	Template:Sort	L'Etat sauvage	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	The Savage State	1978		Albin Michel (8)
1965		Template:Sort	L'Adoration	The Bond	1968	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (23)
1966	File:Edmonde Charles-Roux redux.jpg	Template:Sort	Oublier Palerme	To Forget Palermo	1968	Dimenticare Palermo	1990		Grasset (5)
1967		Template:Sort	La Marge	The Margin	1970	The Margin	1976		Gallimard (24)
1968		Template:Sort	Les fruits de l'hiver	The Fruits of Winter	1969	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Robert Laffont
1969		Template:Sort	Creezy	Creezy	1970	Creezy	1974		Gallimard (25)
1970	File:Michel Tournier cropped.JPG	Template:Sort	Le Roi des Aulnes	The Erl-King (UK) or The Ogre (US)	1972	The Ogre	1996		Gallimard (26)
1971		Template:Sort	Les Bêtises	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Grasset (6)
1972	File:Jean Carriere.jpg	Template:Sort	L'Epervier de Maheux	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Pauvert
1973	File:Jacques Chessex.jpg	Template:Sort	L'Ogre	A Father's Love (1975) or The Tyrant (2012)	1975	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:Refn	Grasset (7)
1974		Template:Sort	La Dentellière	A Web of Lace (1976) or The Lacemaker (2008)<ref>Translated by David Dugan. The Dirty Goat, issue 18, pg. 170 Template:Webarchive.</ref>	1976	The Lacemaker	1977		Gallimard (27)
1975		Template:Sort (Romain Gary)	La vie devant soi	Momo (1978) or The Life Before Us (1986)	1978	Madame Rosa The Life Ahead	1977 2020	Template:Refn	Mercure de France (3)
1976	File:Patrick Grainville01.JPG	Template:Sort	Les Flamboyants	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Seuil (2)
1977	File:Réception de Patrice Franceschi comme Écrivain de Marine le 10 février 2014 à l'Hôtel de la Marine à Paris - 20.jpg	Template:Sort	John l'enfer	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Seuil (3)
1978	File:Patrick Modiano 6 dec 2014 - 23.jpg	Template:Sort	Rue des boutiques obscures	Missing Person	1980	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (28)
1979	File:Antonine Maillet redux.jpg	Template:Sort	Pélagie-la-Charrette	Pélagie: The Return to Acadie	1982	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Grasset (8)
1980	File:Yves Navarre redux.png	Template:Sort	Le Jardin d'acclimatation	Cronus' Children	1986	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Flammarion (3)
1981		Template:Sort	Anne-Marie	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Grasset (9)
1982	File:Dominique Fernandez redux.jpg	Template:Sort	Dans la main de l'Ange	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Grasset (10)
1983		Template:Sort	Les égarés	The Lost Ones	1991	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Balland
1984	File:Marguerite Duras 1993.jpg	Template:Sort	L'Amant	The Lover	1986	The Lover	1992		Minuit
1985	File:Yann Queféllec 2013 a.jpg	Template:Sort	Les Noces barbares	The Wedding	1987	The Cruel Embrace	1987		Gallimard (29)
1986		Template:Sort	Valet de nuit	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Grasset (11)
1987	File:Tahar Ben Jelloun redux.jpg	Template:Sort	La nuit sacrée	The Sacred Night	1989	La Nuit sacrée<ref>La Nuit sacrée at IMDb</ref>	1993		Seuil (4)
1988	File:Cohen-Solal Mutualite 2008 03 03 n3.jpg	Template:Sort	L'Exposition coloniale	Love and Empire	1991	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Seuil (5)
1989		Template:Sort	Un grand pas vers le Bon Dieu	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Grasset (12)
1990	File:Jean Rouaud (2015).png	Template:Sort	Les Champs d'honneur	Fields of Glory	1992	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Minuit (2)
1991		Template:Sort	Les Filles du Calvaire	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Grasset (13)
1992	File:Patrick Chamoiseau redux.jpg	Template:Sort	Texaco	Texaco	1998	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (30)
1993	File:Amin Maalouf par Claude Truong-Ngoc novembre 2013.jpg	Template:Sort	Le Rocher de Tanios	The Rock of Tanios	1994	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Grasset (14)
1994	File:Paris - Salon du livre 2013 - Didier Van Cauwelaert - 001.jpg	Template:Sort	Un Aller simple	One-Way	2003	One Way Ticket<ref>One Way Ticket at IMDb</ref>	2001		Albin Michel (9)
1995	File:Andrei Makine.jpg	Template:Sort	Le Testament français	Dreams of My Russian Summers	1998	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Mercure de France (4)
1996	File:Pascale Roze (2014).png	Template:Sort	Le Chasseur Zéro	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Albin Michel (10)
1997	File:Patrick Rambaud 2010 a.jpg	Template:Sort	La Bataille	The Battle	2000	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Grasset (15)
1998	File:Paule Constant par Claude Truong-Ngoc sept 2013.jpg	Template:Sort	Confidence pour confidence	Trading Secrets	2001	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (31)
1999	File:Jean Echenoz (2016).png	Template:Sort	Je m'en vais	I'm Gone (US) or I'm Off (UK)	2001	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Minuit (3)
2000		Template:Sort	Ingrid Caven	Ingrid Caven	2004	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (32)
2001	File:Jean-Christophe Rufin par Claude Truong-Ngoc octobre 2013.jpg	Template:Sort	Rouge Brésil	Brazil Red	2004	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (33)
2002	File:Pascal Quignard le 5 avril 2013.jpg	Template:Sort	Les Ombres errantes	The Roving Shadows	2011	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Grasset (16)
2003		Template:Sort	La maîtresse de Brecht	Brecht's Lover (US) or Brecht's Mistress (UK)	2005	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Albin Michel (11)
2004	File:Laurent Gaudé redux.jpg	Template:Sort	Le Soleil des Scorta	The House of Scorta (US 2006) The Scortas' Sun (UK 2007)	2006	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Actes Sud
2005		Template:Sort	Trois jours chez ma mère	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Grasset (17)
2006	File:Jonathan Littell redux.jpg	Template:Sort	Les Bienveillantes	The Kindly Ones	2009	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (34)
2007	File:Gilles Leroy redux.jpg	Template:Sort	Alabama Song	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Mercure de France (5)
2008	File:Atiq Rahimi 2010 a.jpg	Template:Sort	Syngué Sabour: La pierre de patience	Stone of Patience (UK) or The Patience Stone (US)	2010	The Patience Stone	2012		P.O.L
2009	File:Gutenbergpresse Marie-NDiaye 07-Portrait.JPG	Template:Sort	Trois femmes puissantes	Three Strong Women	2012	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (35)
2010	File:Michel Houellebecq no Fronteiras do Pensamento Porto Alegre 2016 (30895029365) (cropped).jpg	Template:Sort	La Carte et le territoire	Template:Nowrap	2012	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Flammarion (4)
2011	File:Alexis Jenni redux.jpg	Template:Sort	L'Art français de la guerre	The French Art of War	2017	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (36)
2012	File:Jérôme Ferrari 2010 (crop).jpg	Template:Sort	Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome	The Sermon on the Fall of Rome	2014	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Actes Sud (2)
2013	File:Pierre Lemaitre — Salon du livre de Paris - 23 mars 2014 recadrée.jpg	Template:Sort	Au revoir là-haut	The Great Swindle	2015	See You Up There	2017		Albin Michel (12)
2014	File:Lydie Salvayre redux.jpg	Template:Sort	Pas pleurer	Cry, Mother Spain	2016	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Seuil (6)
2015	File:Paris - Salon du livre 2013 - Mathias Énard - 005.jpg	Template:Sort	Boussole	Compass	2017	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Actes Sud (3)
2016	File:Leïla Slimani no Fronteiras do Pensamento São Paulo 2018 (42891129632).jpg	Template:Sort	Chanson douce	Lullaby (UK) The Perfect Nanny (USA)	2018	Perfect Nanny	2019		Gallimard (37)
2017	File:VUILLARD-J16-bertini-1002405.jpg	Template:Sort	L'Ordre du jour	The Order of the Day	2018	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Actes Sud (4)
2018	File:Nicolas Mathieu redux.jpg	Template:Sort	Leurs enfants après eux	And Their Children After Them	2019	And Their Children After Them	2024		Actes Sud (5)
2019	File:Jean-Paul Dubois (2016) - 2.png	Template:Sort	Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon	Not Everybody Lives the Same Way	2022	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		L'Olivier
2020	File:Hervé Le Tellier (2021).png	Template:Sort	L'Anomalie	The Anomaly	2021	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Gallimard (38)
2021	File:Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (2021).png	Template:Sort	La plus secrète mémoire des hommes	The Most Secret Memory of Men	2023	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:Refn	Philippe Rey / Jimsaan
2022	File:Brigitte Giraud (2017).png	Brigitte Giraud	Vivre Vite	Live Fast	2025	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		Flammarion (5)
2023	File:Fnac Forum 2017 (37284503615).jpg	Jean-Baptiste Andrea	Veiller sur elle	Watching Over Her	2025	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		L'Iconoclaste (1)
2024	File:Kamel Daoud par Claude Truong-Ngoc février 2015.jpg	Kamel Daoud	Houris	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a		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.<ref>Autres prix décernés par l'Académie Goncourt</ref><ref>Les Goncourt surfent, Le Figaro, 29 January 2009</ref> 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.<ref>Autres prix décernés par l'Académie Goncourt: Lauréats</ref>

Template:Anchor 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. Template:Div col

• 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<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2015 – Jean-Christophe Attias, Moïse fragile<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 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
• 2024 – Geneviève Haroche-Bouzinac, Madame de Sévigné

Template:Anchor 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. Template:Div col

• 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<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2015 – Patrice Franceschi, Première personne du singulier<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 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
• 2024 – Véronique Ovaldé, À nos vies imparfaites

Template:Anchor Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman

Goncourt Prize for debut novel. Awarded in partnership with the municipality of Paris. Template:Div col

• 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<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2015 – Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2016 – Joseph Andras, Template:Ill. Author declined the prize.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2017 – Maryam Madjidi, Marx et la poupée<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 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

Template:Anchor Prix Goncourt de la Poésie

Template: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. Template:Div col

• 1985 – Claude Roy
• 1986 – postponed to 1987<ref name="Academie Goncourt">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1987 – Yves Bonnefoy
• 1988 – Eugène Guillevic
• 1989 – Alain Bosquet
• 1990 – Charles Le Quintrec
• 1991 – Jean-Claude Renard
• 1992 – Georges-Emmanuel Clancier
• 1993 – not awarded<ref name="Academie Goncourt"/>
• 1994 – not awarded<ref name="Academie Goncourt"/>
• 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<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2016 – Le Printemps des Poètes
• 2017 – Franck Venaille
• 2018 – Anise Koltz
• 2019 – Yvon Le Men
• 2020 – Michel Deguy
• 2021 – Jacques Roubaud<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2022 – Jean-Michel Maulpoix
• 2023 – Laura Vazquez
• 2023 – Christian Bobin (special prize awarded posthumously)
• 2024 – Louis-Philippe Dalembert

Template:Anchor 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

See also

• Template:Lang – announced at the same ceremony as the Prix Goncourt, it has become something of a second-place prize.
• Prix Goncourt des Lycéens
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• List of French literary awards

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

Notes and references

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