The Gallica blog has traced the list of the first thirty winners of the prize, from John-Antoine Nau to André Malraux, several of which can now be consulted online. This is for example the case of Goncourt from exactly a century ago, Le Chèvrefeuille by Thierry Sandre, as well as those of 1910 (From Goupil to Margot by Louis Pergaud), 1913 (Le Peuple de la mer by Marc Elder) , 1915 (Gaspard by René Benjamin), 1916 (Le Feu by Henri Barbusse) or 1919 (In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flowers by Marcel Proust). Closer to us, many winners of the prize came to the BnF to discuss their writing practice: the literary masterclasses Reading, Writing, organized in partnership with France Culture and the National Book Center, welcomed these recent years Brigitte Giraud, Hervé Le Tellier, Nicolas Mathieu, Leïla Slimani, Mathias Énard, Pierre Lemaître, Jérôme Ferrari, Laurent Gaudé, Jean-Christophe Rufin, Jean Échenoz…
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From Nau to Malraux – the first winners of the Goncourt prize…
(Illustr.: Colette and the jury of the Goncourt prize in 1948, Paris, interpress, 1948, coll. Specialized libraries of the city of Paris)
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