Prix Goncourt des lycéens
The Prix Goncourt des lycéens (German: "Goncourt Prize for Upper School Students") is a French literary prize . It is organized by the French Ministry of Education under the auspices of the Académie Goncourt in collaboration with the retail chain Fnac and the Réseau Canopé . With the award, French school classes choose what they consider to be the best novel among the works nominated for the regular Prix Goncourt . The Prix Goncourt des lycéens is awarded every year in November, a few days after the Prix Goncourt. The aim of the award is to introduce students between the ages of 15 and 18 to contemporary French literature and to encourage reading in general.
History and selection process
The award was first given in 1988 at the suggestion of ten Breton schools. The French Ministry of Education has now taken over the organization centrally.
Nationwide, after registration by the institutions in May of each year, around 50–52 school classes with a total of around 2000 students are selected to take part in the Prix Goncourt des lycéens. Which class of a school takes part depends on the decision of the respective teachers. After the nominated works have been selected by the Académie Goncourt at the beginning of September, Fnac will make the relevant books available to school classes. They have two months to read the novels with their teachers. At the same time, seven regional meetings between the students and the book authors will be organized. After the readings have ended, each class elects a representative who will present the novels they prefer at regional advisory meetings. The deliberations take place simultaneously in November in the six cities of Lyon , Nantes , Metz , Paris , Marseille and Rennes . Each of the six regions then selects two representatives who will present their three favorite books at the final deliberations in Rennes in mid-November and decide on the winner of the Prix Goncourt des lycéens.
To date, over 17,000 students have taken part in the competition. More than 37,000 copies of 216 different contemporary novels have been read.
According to a study by GfK , which was commissioned by the magazine Livres Hebdo , the Prix Goncourt des lycéens was the second most influential literary prize for the French book market in the period 2014-2018, with an average of 314,000 copies sold, behind the regular Prix Goncourt (an average of 367,100 copies sold) .
Award winners
In 1988, 1989, 1991 and 1995 the winner of the Prix Goncourt des lycéens was the same as the regular Prix Goncourt winner. Up to 2019, the most common works from the publisher Grasset (seven wins) were awarded, followed by Gallimard (6) and Actes Sud (5).
| year | Prize winner | novel | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Françoise Lefèvre | Le petit prince cannibale | Mute, little prince |
| 1991 | Pierre Combescot | Les Filles du Calvaire | not known |
| 1992 | Eduardo Manet | L'île du lézard vert | not known |
| 1993 | Anne Wiazemsky | Canines | not known |
| 1994 | Claude Pujade-Renaud | Mother in law | The stepmother |
| 1995 | Andreï Makine | Le Testament français | The French Testament |
| 1996 | Nancy Huston | Instruments des ténèbres | Instruments of darkness |
| 1997 | Jean-Pierre Milovanoff | Le Maître des paons | not known |
| 1998 | Luc Lang | Mille six cents ventres | 1600 bellies |
| 1999 | Jean-Marie Laclavetine | Première ligne | not known |
| 2000 | Ahmadou Kourouma | Allah n'est pas obligé | Allah doesn't have to be righteous |
| 2001 | Shan Sa | La Joueuse de go | The go player |
| 2002 | Laurent Gaudé | La mort du roi Tsongor | The death of King Tsongor |
| 2003 | Yann Apperry | Farrago | The random life of Homer Idlewilde |
| 2004 | Philippe Grimbert | Un secret | A secret |
| 2005 | Sylvie Germain | Magnus | not known |
| 2006 | Léonora Miano | Contours du jour qui vient | not known |
| 2007 | Philippe Claudel | Le Rapport de Brodeck | Brodeck's report |
| 2008 | Catherine Cusset | Un brilliant avenir | not known |
| 2009 | Jean-Michel Guenassia | Le club des incorrigibles optimistes | The club of incorrigible optimists |
| 2010 | Mathias Énard | Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants | Tell them about battles, kings and elephants |
| 2011 | Carole Martinez | You domaine des Murmures | not known |
| 2012 | Joël Dicker | La Vérité sur l'affaire Harry Quebert | The truth about the Harry Quebert case |
| 2013 | Sorj Chalandon | Le Quatrième Mur | The fourth wall |
| 2014 | David Foenkinos | Charlotte | Charlotte |
| 2015 | Delphine de Vigan | D'après une histoire vraie | After a true story |
| 2016 | Gaël Faye | Petit pays | Small country |
| 2017 | Alice Zeniter | L'Art de perdre | The art of losing |
| 2018 | David Diop | Brother d'âme | At night our blood is black |
| 2019 | Karine Tuil | Les Choses humaines | Human things |
Web links
- Presentation of the price at academie-goncourt.fr (French)
- Le Prix Goncourt des lycéens at education.gouv.fr (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Prix Goncourt des lycéens at academie-goncourt.fr (French; accessed on October 27, 2017).
- ↑ Le prix Goncourt à l'heure de vérité . In: lepoint.fr, November 4, 2019 (accessed November 4, 2019).
- ↑ Publisher's report on human things . In: d-nb.info (accessed November 15, 2019).