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2020s
2010s
- 2019Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon
- 2018Leurs enfants après eux
- 2017L'Ordre du jour
- 2016Chanson douce
- 2015Boussole
- 2014Pas pleurer
- 2013Au revoir là-haut — Pierre Lemaitre
- 2012Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome — Jérôme Ferrari
- 2011L'Art français de la guerre — Alexis Jenni
- 2010La Carte et le territoire — Michel Houellebecq
2000s
- 2009Trois femmes puissantes — Marie Ndiaye
- 2008Syngué Sabour: La pierre de patience — Atiq Rahimi
- 2007Alabama Song — Gilles Leroy
- 2006Les Bienveillantes — Jonathan Littell
- 2005Trois jours chez ma mère — François Weyergans
- 2004Le Soleil des Scorta — Laurent Gaudé
- 2003La maîtresse de Brecht — Jacques-Pierre Amette
- 2002Les Ombres errantes — Pascal Quignard
- 2001Rouge Brésil — Jean-Christophe Rufin
- 2000Ingrid Caven — Jean-Jacques Schuhl
1990s
- 1999Je m'en vais — Jean Echenoz
- 1998Confidence pour confidence — Paule Constant
- 1997La Bataille — Patrick Rambaud
- 1996Le Chasseur Zéro — Pascale Roze
- 1995Le Testament français — Andreï Makine
- 1994Un Aller simple — Didier Van Cauwelaert
- 1993Le Rocher de Tanios — Amin Maalouf
- 1992Texaco — Patrick Chamoiseau
- 1991Les Filles du Calvaire — Pierre Combescot
- 1990Les Champs d'honneur — Jean Rouaud
1980s
- 1989Un grand pas vers le Bon Dieu — Jean Vautrin
- 1988L'Exposition coloniale — Érik Orsenna
- 1987La nuit sacrée — Tahar Ben Jelloun
- 1986Valet de nuit — Michel Host
- 1985Les Noces barbares — Yann Queffélec
- 1984L'Amant — Marguerite Duras
- 1983Les égarés — Frédérick Tristan
- 1982Dans la main de l'Ange — Dominique Fernandez
- 1981Anne-Marie — Lucien Bodard
- 1980Le Jardin d'acclimatation — Yves Navarre
1970s
- 1979Pélagie-la-Charrette — Antonine Maillet
- 1978Rue des boutiques obscures — Patrick Modiano
- 1977John l'enfer — Didier Decoin
- 1976Les Flamboyants — Patrick Grainville
- 1975La vie devant soi — Émile Ajar (Romain Gary)
- 1974La Dentellière — Pascal Lainé
- 1973L'Ogre — Jacques Chessex
- 1972L'Epervier de Maheux — Jean Carrière
- 1971Les Bêtises — Jacques Laurent
- 1970Le Roi des Aulnes — Michel Tournier
1960s
- 1969Creezy — Félicien Marceau
- 1968Les fruits de l'hiver — Bernard Clavel
- 1967La Marge — André Pieyre de Mandiargues
- 1966Oublier Palerme — Edmonde Charles-Roux
- 1965L'Adoration — Jacques Borel
- 1964L'Etat sauvage — Georges Conchon
- 1963Quand la mer se retire — Armand Lanoux
- 1962Les bagages de sable — Anna Langfus
- 1961La pitié de Dieu — Jean Cau
- 1960Dieu est né en exil — Vintilă Horia
1950s
- 1959Le dernier des Justes — André Schwarz-Bart
- 1958Saint-Germain ou la négociation — Francis Walder
- 1957La Loi — Roger Vailland
- 1956Les racines du ciel — Romain Gary
- 1955Les eaux mêlées — Roger Ikor
- 1954Les Mandarins — Simone de Beauvoir
- 1953Les Bêtes — Pierre Gascar
- 1952Léon Morin, prêtre — Béatrix Beck
- 1951Le Rivage des Syrtes — Julien Gracq
- 1950Les jeux sauvages — Paul Colin
1940s
- 1949Week-end à Zuydcoote — Robert Merle
- 1948Les grandes familles — Maurice Druon
- 1947Les Forêts de la Nuit — Jean-Louis Curtis
- 1946Histoire d'un Fait divers — Jean-Jacques Gautier
- 1945Mon village à l'heure allemande — Jean-Louis Bory
- 1944Le premier accroc coûte 200 Francs — Elsa Triolet
- 1943Passage de l'Homme — Marius Grout
- 1942Pareil à des enfants — Marc Bernard
- 1941Vent de Mars — Henri Pourrat
- 1940Les grandes vacances — Francis Ambrière
1930s
- 1939Les enfants gâtés — Philippe Hériat
- 1938L'Araigne — Henri Troyat
- 1937Faux passeports — Charles Plisnier
- 1936L'Empreinte de Dieu — Maxence Van Der Meersch
- 1935Sang et Lumières — Joseph Peyre
- 1934Capitaine Conan — Roger Vercel
- 1933La Condition humaine — André Malraux
- 1932Les Loups — Guy Mazeline
- 1931Mal d'amour — Jean Fayard
- 1930Malaisie — H. Fauconnier
1920s
- 1929L'Ordre — Marcel Arland
- 1928Un Homme se penche sur son passé — Maurice Constantin-Weyer
- 1927Jérôme 60° latitude nord — Maurice Bedel
- 1926Le supplice de Phèdre — Henri Deberly
- 1925Raboliot — Maurice Genevoix
- 1924Le Chèvrefeuille — Thierry Sandre
- 1923Rabevel ou Le mal des ardents — Lucien Fabre
- 1922Le vitriol de la lune / Le martyre de l'obèse — Henri Béraud
- 1921Batouala — René Maran
- 1920Nêne — Ernest Pérochon
1910s
- 1919À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs — Marcel Proust
- 1918Civilisation — Georges Duhamel
- 1917La Flamme au poing — Henry Malherbe
- 1916Le Feu — Henri Barbusse
- 1915Gaspard — René Benjamin
- 1914L'Appel du Sol — Adrien Bertrand
- 1913Le peuple de la mer — Marc Elder
- 1912Les Filles de la pluie — André Savignon
- 1911Monsieur des Lourdines — Alphonse de Châteaubriant
- 1910De Goupil à Margot — Louis Pergaud
About the Prix Goncourt
The Prix Goncourt is France's most prestigious and celebrated literary prize, awarded annually since 1903 by the Académie Goncourt to the best and most imaginative prose work in French. The prize itself is famously symbolic — a check for ten euros — but the cultural impact and commercial boost it delivers to the winning novel are unparalleled in the French literary world, routinely propelling titles to hundreds of thousands of sales. The Académie comprises ten writers who meet monthly at the Drouant restaurant in Paris, where the final vote takes place each November.
Frequently Asked Questions
- The monetary prize is symbolic: a check for ten euros. However, the prize effectively guarantees massive commercial success, with winning novels often selling hundreds of thousands of copies.
- The prize is awarded by the Académie Goncourt, a literary society of ten writers who meet monthly at the Drouant restaurant in Paris.
- The winner is announced on the first Tuesday of November each year at the Drouant restaurant in Paris.
- No. The rules of the Académie Goncourt stipulate that a writer may only win the prize once in their lifetime.
- The prize is awarded for prose works written in French, including works by Francophone authors from outside France.
- The main Prix Goncourt is awarded to the best prose work of the year. The Prix Goncourt du premier roman is a separate prize specifically for debut novels, awarded by a jury of high school students.
- No. The prize is awarded exclusively to works originally written in French.
- The announcement is made at the Drouant restaurant in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, where the Académie Goncourt has held its monthly lunches since 1914.
- The prize is open to novels and other imaginative prose works (nouvelles, recueil). Poetry, essays, and non-fiction are generally excluded.
- Each autumn the Académie Goncourt announces a selection list, then a shortlist of four titles, and finally votes at the November luncheon — requiring an absolute majority, with the jury president casting a deciding vote in case of a tie.