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Le dernier des Justes by André Schwarz-Bart — book cover

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Prix Goncourt1959Winner

About the Author

André Schwarz-Bart (1928-2006) was a French novelist of Polish-Jewish ancestry whose debut novel Le Dernier des justes (1959; The Last of the Just) won the prestigious Prix Goncourt and chronicles a Jewish family's suffering from the Crusades to Auschwitz. (1967).

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