Prix ​​Goncourt / Roman

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Award winner 2020: Hervé Le Tellier

The Prix ​​Goncourt for the best French-language novel of the year ( French Le Prix Goncourt ) was first awarded in 1903. It is considered the most important of the five prizes awarded by the Académie Goncourt.

Selection process

Similar to the long and short lists used in the Anglo-American region , the jury members publish a larger shortlist with up to 16 novels (“1ère sélection”) when awarding the Prix Goncourt for the best novel. In a second selection process at the beginning of October this will normally be reduced to eight titles (“2ème sélection”) and at the end of October to four novels (“3ème sélection”). The ten jury members then vote openly orally in up to 14 consecutive rounds of the winner of the Prix Goncourt. In the first ten rounds, the prize can only be won with an absolute majority , in rounds 11 to 13 with a relative majoritybe awarded. In the event of a tie, the vote of the jury president is decisive in the 14th and final round of voting.

Award winners

The most successful publisher is Éditions Gallimard with 39 award winners so far (as of 2020). Although the Prix Goncourt is traditionally not awarded several times to the same person, the Frenchman Romain Gary (1914–1980) won two awards - in 1956 for Les racines du ciel and in 1975 for the novel La vie devant soi , published under the pseudonym Émile Ajar . It was only after his death in 1981 that it became known that Gary was identical to Ajar.

Victories of debut novels remained the exception. Paul Colin (1950 for Les jeux sauvages ) and André Schwarz-Bart (1959 for Le dernier des justes ) were honored for their first works, but were not able to build up an extensive work afterwards. They were followed by Edmonde Charles-Roux (1966 for Oublier Palerme ). Although a separate category was created in 1990 for the award of first works, Jean Rouaud prevailed in the same year with Les champs d'honneur as best novel, followed by Pascale Roze in 1996 with her debut novel Le Chasseur zéro . Roze was the eighth author to be honored with the Prix Goncourt, after Elsa Triolet (1944), Béatrix Beck (1952), Simone de Beauvoir (1954), Anna Langfus (1962), Charles-Roux (1966), Antonine Maillet ( 1979) and Marguerite Duras (1984). With Paule Constant (1998), Marie NDiaye (2009), Lydie Salvayre (2014) and Leïla Slimani (2016), other authors won.

year Prize winner novel German title
1903 John-Antoine Nau Force ennemy
1904 Léon Frapié La maternelle Children's school stories
1905 Claude Farrère Les civilisés People of culture
1906 Jérôme Tharaud Dingley, l'illustre écrivain
Jean Tharaud
1907 Emile Moselly Terres Lorraines
1908 Francis de Miomandre Écrit sur de l'eau ...
1909 Marius-Ary Leblond En France
1910 Louis Pergaud De Goupil à Margot
1911 Alphonse de Châteaubriant Monsieur des Lourdines Lord of Lourdines
1912 André Savignon Les filles de la pluie
1913 Marc Elder Le peuple de la mer
1914 Adrien Bertrand L'appel du sol
1915 René Benjamin Gaspard
1916 Henri Barbusse Le feu The fire
1917 Henry Malherbe La flame au poing
1918 Georges Duhamel Civilization
1919 Marcel Proust À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs In the shadow of the young girl / In the shadow of the young girl's blossom
1920 Ernest Pérochon Nêne Magdalene: Story of a Simple Heart
1921 René Maran Batouala Batuala / Batouala
1922 Henri Béraud Le vitriol de la lune
Le martyre de l'obèse
1923 Lucien Fabre Rabevel ou Le mal des ardents
1924 Thierry Sandre Le Chèvrefeuille, Le purgatoire, Le chapitre XIII
1925 Maurice Genevoix Raboliot
1926 Henri Deberly Le supplice de Phèdre
1927 Maurice Bedel Jérôme 60 ° latitude north Jérôme loves at 60 ° north latitude
1928 Maurice Constantin-Weyer Un homme se penche sur son passé ... a look back and then ...
1929 Marcel Arland L'ordre Holy order / The law of order
1930 Henri Fauconnier Malaisie The palm house
1931 Jean Fayard Mal d'amour Love affliction
1932 Guy Mazeline Les Loups
1933 André Malraux La condition humaine This is how man lives
1934 Roger Vercel Captain Conan Captain Conan
1935 Joseph Peyré Sang et Lumières
1936 Maxence Van der Meersch L'Empreinte de Dieu His legacy
1937 Charles Plisnier Faux passeports Wrong passports
1938 Henri Troyat L'Araigne The poison spider
1939 Philippe Hériat Les enfants gâtés Agnes Boussardel
1940 Francis Ambrière Les grandes vacances
1941 Henri Pourrat Le vent de mars
1942 Marc Bernard Pareil á des enfants
1943 Marius Grout Passage de l'Homme
1944 Elsa Triolet Le premier accroc coûte 200 francs The end has its price
1945 Jean-Louis Bory Mon village a l'heure allemande
1946 Jean-Jacques Gautier Histoire d'un fait diverse
1947 Jean-Louis Curtis Les forêts de la nuit Labyrinths of the night
1948 Maurice Druon Les grandes familles The big families
1949 Robert Merle Week-end à Zuydcoote Weekend in Zuidcoote
1950 Paul Colin Les jeux sauvages
1951 Julien Gracq Le rivage des Syrtes The bank of the Syrten
1952 Béatrix Beck Léon Morin, pretre
1953 Pierre Gascar Les bêtes The animals
Le temps de morts Garden of the Dead
1954 Simone de Beauvoir Les mandarins The mandarins of Paris
1955 Roger Ikor Les eaux mêlées
1956 Romain Gary Les racines du ciel The roots of heaven
1957 Roger Vailland La loi Rough tough / The law
1958 Francis Walder Saint Germain ou la negociation The negotiator
1959 André Schwarz-Bart Le dernier des justes The last of the righteous
1960 Vintila Horia Dieu est ne en exile God was born in exile
1961 Jean Cau La pitié de Dieu The mercy of God
1962 Anna Langfus The bagages de sable Baggage made of sand
1963 Armand Lanoux Quand la mer se retire When the sea recedes
1964 Georges Conchon L'état sauvage Wild conditions
1965 Jacques Borel L'adoration Adoration
1966 Edmonde Charles-Roux Oublier Palerme Forgot Palermo
1967 André Pieyre de Mandiargues La margin The edge
1968 Bernard Clavel Les fruits de l'hiver Fruits of winter
1969 Félicien Marceau Creezy Creezy
1970 Michel Tournier Le roi des aulnes The Erlkönig
1971 Jacques Laurent Les Bêtises
1972 Jean Carrière L'Epervier de Maheux The sparrowhawk from Maheux
1973 Jacques Chessex L'ogre The child eater
1974 Pascal Lainé La dentellière The lace maker
1975 Émile Ajar La vie devant soi You still have life ahead of you
1976 Patrick Grainville Les Flamboyants
1977 Didier Decoin John l'enfer Window to hell
1978 Patrick Modiano Rue des boutiques obscures The alley of the dark shops
1979 Antonine Maillet Pélagie la charrette With half the heart
1980 Yves Navarre Le jardin d'acclimatation Preventive intervention
1981 Lucien Bodard Annemarie
1982 Dominique Fernandez In the main de l'ange In the angel's hand
1983 Frédérick Tristan Les Égarés
1984 Marguerite Duras L'amant The lover
1985 Yann Queffélec Les noces barbaren Barbaric wedding
1986 Michel host Valet de nuit
1987 Tahar Ben Jelloun La nuit sacrée The night of innocence
1988 Érik Orsenna L'exposure coloniale Gabriel II. Or what does the world cost
1989 Jean Vautrin Un grand pas vers le bon Dieu The heart plays the blues
1990 Jean Rouaud Les champs d'honneur The fields of honor
1991 Pierre Combescot Les Filles du Calvaire
1992 Patrick Chamoiseau Texaco Texaco
1993 Amin Maalouf Le rocher de Tanios The rocks of Tanios
1994 Didier van Cauwelaert Un very simple The foundling
1995 Andreï Makine Le Testament français The French Testament
1996 Pascale Roze Le Chasseur Zéro The noise
1997 Patrick Rambaud La Bataille The battle
1998 Paule Constant Confidence pour confidence Trust versus trust
1999 Jean Echenoz Je m'en vais I'm leaving now
2000 Jean-Jacques Schuhl Ingrid Caven Ingrid Caven
2001 Jean-Christophe Rufin Rouge Brésil
2002 Pascal Quignard Les ombres errantes The wandering shadows
2003 Jacques-Pierre Amette La maîtresse de Brecht
2004 Laurent Gaudé Le soleil des Scorta The sun of the Scorta
2005 François Weyergans Trois jours chez ma mère Three days with my mother
2006 Jonathan Littell Les Bienveillantes The well-meaning
2007 Gilles Leroy Alabama song Alabama song
2008 Atiq Rahimi Syngué Sabour. Pierre de patience Stone of patience
2009 Marie NDiaye Trois femmes puissantes Three strong women
2010 Michel Houellebecq La carte et le territoire Map and area
2011 Alexis Jenni L'art français de la guerre The French art of war
2012 Jérôme Ferrari Le sermon sur la chute de Rome Sermon on the fall of Rome
2013 Pierre Lemaitre Au revoir là-haut I'll see you up there
2014 Lydie Salvayre Pas pleurer do not Cry
2015 Mathias Énard Boussole compass
2016 Leïla Slimani Chanson douce Then you sleep too
2017 Eric Vuillard L'ordre du jour The agenda
2018 Nicolas Mathieu Leurs enfants après eux Like her children later
2019 Jean-Paul Dubois Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon Each of us inhabits the world in his own way
2020 Hervé Le Tellier L'anomaly
Note:
  1. ^ The 1914 laureate, Adrien Bertrand, was not honored until 1916.
  2. ^ The 1940 laureate, Francis Ambrière, was not honored until 1946.
  3. ^ The 1951 laureate, Julien Gracq, declined the award.
  4. ^ For political reasons, the 1960 winner, Vintila Horia, was never officially recognized.
  5. ^ Pseudonym of Romain Gary

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prix ​​Goncourt - Presentation . academie-goncourt.fr; accessed on October 22, 2017.
  2. ^ Romain Gary . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 07/1982 of February 8, 1982, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 31/2009 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
  3. ↑ Raphaëlle Leyris: Hervé Le Tellier remporte le prix Goncourt pour son roman "L'Anomalie" . In: lemonde.fr, November 30, 2020 (accessed November 30, 2020).