Prix Goncourt
The Prix Goncourt (French Le prix Goncourt, [ lə pʁi ɡɔ'kuʁ ] ) is the most famous French literary prize.
He is since 1903 in each case in the late fall, usually in November, awarded by the Académie Goncourt founded in 1900 and is the best narrative work stand out, which is published in the current year in French. His ceremony is the main event of the so-called rentrée littéraire, which is so typical of the literary life of France massed appearance of new works from mid-August, ie, about the same time as the " rentrée ," the return of the French from the holidays and the start of the new school year.
Although endowed with symbolic 10 €, the Prix Goncourt is highly sought after by the authors, because it has a strong influence on the sales success of the work.
Named the price according to the writer brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt. Edmond de Goncourt laid down the foundation of the Académie Goncourt and the Prix Goncourt, the Foundation in his will in 1896.
The jury consists of ten writers, called The Ten, which may not also be members of the Académie française. There currently are the Ten three women and six men, including Robert Sabatier, Régis Debray, Didier and Tahar Ben Jelloun Decoin. Naturally, there are always conspiracy theories, according to which judges team up to take turns to favor close to them publishers. So there was the bad word of a cartel " Galligrasseuil " ( Gallimard, Grasset, Seuil ).
The prize is awarded for Fiction; there will be parallel Goncourt prizes for poets, novel - firstfruits, short stories, as well as biographies.
Meeting of the jury since 1914 is a salon on the first floor of the Parisian restaurants Drouant in the Rue Gaillon near the Opéra Garnier. The French chef Auguste Escoffier was responsible for the menu at the first meeting of the jury on February 26, 1903.
The most successful publishing house Éditions Gallimard is with the previous 37 winners.
1988 there was an innovation in the sense of promoting reading, the Prix Goncourt des lycéens (Eng. about Goncourt Prize of high school students ): The Ten propose 12 novels and 2,000 students 15-18 select one of them from.
Award winners
- 2013: Pierre Lemaitre Au revoir là -haut
- 2012: Ferrari Jérôme Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome - German sermon on the fall of Rome in 2013
- 2011: Alexis Jenni L'Art français de la guerre, Éditions Gallimard, Paris - dt The French Art of War 2012
- 2010: Michel Houellebecq et le territoire La Carte, Flammarion, Paris - Germany map and area in 2011
- 2009: Marie NDiaye Trois femmes puissantes - dt Three strong women 2011
- 2008: Atiq Rahimi Syngué Sabour. Pierre de patience - dt stone of patience in 2009
- 2007: Gilles Leroy Alabama Song - dt Alabama Song 2008
- 2006: Jonathan Littell Les Bienveillantes - dt The Kindly Ones 2008
- 2005: François Trois jours chez ma WEYERGANS mère - dt Three days with my mother in 2006
- 2004: Laurent Le Soleil Gaudé of Scorta - dt The Sun of Scorta 2005
- 2003: Jacques- Pierre Amette La Maîtresse de Brecht ( not translated)
- 2002: Pascal Quignard Les Ombres errantes (not translated)
- 2001: Jean-Christophe Rufin Rouge Brésil (not translated)
- 2000: Jean -Jacques Schuhl Ingrid Caven - German Ingrid Caven 2001
- 1999: Jean Echenoz The m'en vais - dt now I'm going in 2000
- 1998: Paule Constant Confidence pour confidence - dt confidence in confidence in 1999
- 1997: Patrick Rambaud La Bataille - dt The Battle 2000
- 1996: Pascale Roze Le Chasseur zéro - dt The sound of 1998
- 1995: Andrei Makine Le Testament français - dt The French Testament 1997
- 1994: Didier van Cauwelaert Un Aller simple - dt The Foundling 1996
- 1993: Amin Maalouf Le Rocher de Tanios - dt The rocks of Tanios 2004
- 1992: Patrick Chamoiseau, Texaco - Texaco dt 1995
- 1991: Pierre Combescot Les Filles du Calvaire (not translated)
- 1990: Jean Rouaud Les Champs d' honneur - dt The fields of honor 1993
- 1989: Jean Vautrin Un grand pas vers le bon Dieu - dt The heart plays Blues 1993
- 1988: Érik Orsenna L' Exposition coloniale - dt Gabriel II or How much does the world 1989
- 1987: Tahar Ben Jelloun La Nuit sacrée - German Night of Innocence 1988
- 1986: Michel host valet de nuit ( not translated)
- 1985: Les Noces Yann Queffélec Barbares - dt Barbaric Wedding 1987
- 1984: Marguerite Duras L' Amant - The Lover German 1985
- 1983: Frédérick Tristan aka Jean -Paul Baron Les Egares (not translated)
- 1982: Dominique Fernandez Dans la main de l'ange - dt In the hand of the angel 1985
- 1981: Lucien Bodard Anne Marie ( not translated)
- 1980: Yves Navarre Le Jardin d' acclimatation - dt Preventive intervention in 1988
- 1979: Antonine Maillet Pélagie la charrette - dt With half of the heart 2002
- 1978: Patrick Modiano Rue des boutiques obscures - dt The alley of dark stores 1979
- 1977: Didier Decoin John l' enfer - dt window to Hell, 1981
- 1976: Patrick Grainville Les Flamboyant (not translated)
- 1975: Romain Gary ( under the pseudonym " Émile Ajar " ) La Vie devant soi - dt you have life ahead of you in 1977
- 1974: Pascal Laine La Dentellière - dt The Lacemaker 1976
- 1973: Jacques Chessex L' Ogre - German Child Eater 1974
- 1972: Jean Carrière de L' Epervier Maheux - dt, the sparrowhawk by Maheux 1980
- 1971: Jacques Laurent Les bêtises (not translated)
- 1970: Michel Tournier Le roi des aulnes - German Der Erlkönig 1972
- 1969: Félicien Marceau Creezy - dt Creezy 1970
- 1968: Bernard Clavel Les fruits de l' hiver - dt fruits of winter 1970
- 1967: André Pieyre Mandiargues de La marge - dt The edge 2012
- 1966: Edmonde Charles -Roux, Oublier Palermo - Palermo dt Lost in 1967
- 1965: Jacques Borel L' adoration - German Worship 1967
- 1964: Georges Conchon L' État sauvage - Wild German states in 1967
- 1963: Armand Lanoux Quand la mer se retire - dt When the sea recedes
- 1962: Anna Langfus Les bagages de sable - German luggage of sand 1964
- 1961: Jean Cau La Pity de Dieu - German God's mercy 1962
- 1960: Dieu est né en Vintila Horia exile - dt God is born in exile in 1961
- 1959: André Schwarz-Bart, Le dernier des justes - German The Last of the Just 1960
- 1958: Francis Walder Saint Germain ou la négociation - German Negotiator 1959
- 1957: Roger Vailland La loi - dt to the crunch 1958 ( later The Law )
- 1956: Romain Gary Les racines du ciel - dt The Roots of Heaven 1957
- 1955: Roger Ikor Les eaux melees
- 1954: Simone de Beauvoir Les Mandarins - dt The Mandarins 1956
- 1953: Pierre Gascar Les bêtes - dt The Animals 1956
- 1952: Beatrix Beck Léon Morin, Prêtre (not translated)
- 1951: Louis Poirier ( Julien Gracq ) rejected price, Le Rivage of Syrtes - dt The banks of the Syrtes 1952
- 1949: Robert Merle Week- end à Zuydcoote - dt weekend in Zuidcoote 1950
- 1948: Maurice Druon Les grandes familles - The big German families in 1961
- 1947: Jean -Louis Curtis Les Forestry de la nuit - German labyrinths of the night 1948
- 1946: Jean -Jacques Gautier Histoire d'un fait divers ( not translated)
- 1945: Jean -Louis Bory Mon village a l' heure allemande (not translated)
- 1944: Elsa Triolet Le premier accroc coûte 200 Francs - dt The end has its price in 1983
- 1943: Marius Grout Passage de l' Homme (not translated)
- 1942: Marc Bernard Pareil à des enfants (not translated)
- 1941: Henri Pourrat Le vent de mars (not translated)
- 1940: Francis Les grandes vacances Ambrière (not translated)
- 1939: Philippe Heriat Les enfants Gates - dt Agnes Boussardel 1946
- 1938: Henri Troyat L' araigné - dt The Poison Spider 1950
- 1937: Charles Plisnier Faux Passe ports - dt False passports in 1941
- 1936: Maxence Van der Meersch L' Empreinte de Dieu - dt His legacy 1944
- 1935: Joseph Peyre Sang et Lumières (not translated)
- 1934: Roger Vercel Capitaine Conan - dt Capitaine Conan 1935
- 1933: André Malraux La condition humaine - dt Thus man lives in 1934
- 1932: Guy Mazeline Les Loups (not translated)
- 1931: Jean Fayard Mal d' amour - German Liebesleid 1933
- 1930: Henri Fauconnier Malaisie - dt The Palm House 1942
- 1929: Marcel Arland L' ordre - German Holy Rules 1932 ( later The law of order 1955)
- 1928: Maurice Constantin Weyer Un homme se penche sur son passé - dt ... a look back and then ... 1929
- 1927: Maurice Bedel Jérôme 60 ° latitude North German Jérôme loves to 60_347 latitude 1928
- 1926: Henri Le Deberly supplice de Phèdre (not translated)
- 1925: Maurice Genevoix Raboliot (not translated)
- 1924: Thierry Sandre Le Chèvrefeuille (Le purgatoire, chapitre XIII) (not translated)
- 1923: Lucien Fabre Rabevel ou Le mal of ardents (not translated)
- 1922: Henri Le Béraud vitriol de la lune and Le martyre de l' obèse (both not translated)
- 1921: René Maran Batouala - dt Batuala 1922 ( later Batouala 2007)
- 1920: Ernest Pérochon Nene - dt Magdalene: story of a simple heart 1937
- 1919: Marcel Proust À l' ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs - dt In the shadow of young girls in 1927 (later in a Budding )
- 1918: Georges Duhamel Civilisation ( not translated)
- 1917: Henri Malherbe La flamme au poing (not translated)
- 1916: Henri Barbusse Le Feu - dt The Fire 1918
- 1915: René Benjamin Gaspard (not translated)
- 1914: Adrien Bertrand L'appel du sol (. The prize was awarded in 1916 ) ( not translated)
- 1913: Marc Le peuple Elder de la mer (not translated)
- 1912: André Savignon Les filles de la pluie (not translated)
- 1911: Alphonse de Monsieur Châteaubriant of Lourdines - dt Lord of Lourdines 1942
- 1910: Louis Pergaud De Goupil à Margot ( not fully translated)
- 1909: Marius- Ary Leblond En France (not translated)
- 1908: Francis de Miomandre écrit sur de l' eau ... (not translated)
- 1907: Émile Moselly Le Rouet d' ivoire (not translated)
- 1906: Jérôme and Jean Tharaud, Dingley, l' illustrious écrivain (not translated)
- 1905: Claude Farrère Les Civilisés - German Culture People 1926
- 1904: Léon Frapié La Mater Nelle - German school children stories 1950
- 1903: John -Antoine Nau Force ennemie (not translated)