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Prix Goncourt

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Prix Goncourt

French literary prize for fiction, given by the Académie Goncourt (founded by Edmond de Goncourt in 1903).



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It had won both the 2006 Prix Goncourt and the Grand Prix du Roman--France's most prestigious literary awards--and had been compared to masterpieces like War and Peace, Vassily Grossman's Life and Fate, and even the Greek Oresteia.
The belief that multinational entertainment means that cultural identities can easily be switched is a tempting one; it may be further encouraged by the fact that an American-born writer, Jonathan Littell, has just taken the Prix Goncourt, in supposedly xenophobic France, for a novel written in French.
Corinna Bille, a Swiss short-story writer, playwright, poet, novelist and winner of the 1975 French Prix Goncourt, is considered the foremost contemporary Franco-Swiss writer of women's experiences.
 
 
 
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