Prix Goncourt des Lycéens

The Prix Goncourt des Lycéens is a French literary award created in 1987 as a sort of younger sibling of Prix Goncourt, a prestigious prize for French language literature. The ten members of the Académie Goncourt select twelve literary works as nominees. Some two thousand lycée (roughly equivalent to high school) students read all twelve novels, participate in discussions and debates about them, and ultimately vote on the winner.

While the prize bears the name of the Académie Goncourt, the competition is sponsored and organized by the French Ministry of National Education and the largest French media retailer Fnac, with the stated goal of encouraging young people to read.

Each year's winner is announced in Rennes on the same day as the announcement of the Prix Goncourt, usually in November.

Laureates of the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens

Year		Author	Title	Publisher (x times)	Notes
1988		Erik Orsenna	L'Exposition coloniale [fr]	Seuil	Also prix Goncourt
1989		Jean Vautrin	Un grand pas vers le bon Dieu [fr]	Grasset	Also prix Goncourt
1990		Françoise Lefèvre	Le Petit Prince Cannibale [fr]	Actes Sud
1991		Pierre Combescot	Les Filles du Calvaire [fr]	Grasset (2)	Also prix Goncourt
1992		Eduardo Manet	L'Île du lézard vert	Flammarion
1993		Anne Wiazemsky	Canines	Gallimard
1994		Claude Pujade-Renaud	Belle mère	Actes Sud (2)
1995		Andreï Makine	Le Testament français	Mercure de France	Also prix Goncourt et prix Médicis
1996		Nancy Huston	Instruments des ténèbres [fr]	Actes Sud (3)	Also prix du Livre Inter
1997		Jean-Pierre Milovanoff	Le Maître des paons	Julliard
1998		Luc Lang	Mille six cents ventres	Fayard
1999		Jean-Marie Laclavetine	Première Ligne [fr]	Gallimard (2)
2000		Ahmadou Kourouma	Allah n'est pas obligé [fr]	Seuil (2)	Also prix Renaudot
2001		Shan Sa	La Joueuse de go	Grasset (3)
2002		Laurent Gaudé	La Mort du roi Tsongor [fr]	Actes Sud (4)	Also prix des libraires
2003		Yann Apperry	Farrago	Grasset (4)
2004		Philippe Grimbert	Un secret [fr]	Grasset (5)
2005		Sylvie Germain	Magnus [fr]	Albin Michel
2006		Léonora Miano	Contours du jour qui vient [fr]	Plon
2007		Philippe Claudel	Brodeck's Report	Stock
2008		Catherine Cusset	Un brillant avenir [fr]	Gallimard (3)
2009		Jean-Michel Guenassia	Le Club des incorrigibles optimistes [fr]	Albin Michel (2)
2010		Mathias Énard	Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants	Actes Sud (5)
2011		Carole Martinez	Du domaine des Murmures [fr]	Gallimard (4)
2012		Joël Dicker	The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair	Éditions de Fallois [fr]	Also Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française
2013		Sorj Chalandon	Le Quatrième Mur [fr]	Grasset (6)
2014		David Foenkinos	Charlotte [fr]	Gallimard (5)	Also prix Renaudot
2015		Delphine de Vigan	D'après une histoire vraie [fr]	JC Lattès	Also prix Renaudot
2016		Gaël Faye	Petit Pays	Grasset	Also prix du roman Fnac
2017		Alice Zeniter	L'Art de perdre [fr]	Flammarion (2)	Also prix littéraire du Monde
2018		David Diop	Frère d'âme	Seuil (3)
2019		Karine Tuil	Les Choses humaines	Gallimard (6)	Also prix Interallié
2020		Djaïli Amadou Amal	Les Impatientes	Éditions Emmanuelle Collas	Also Choix Goncourt de l'Orient

External links

• Official website (in French)
• French Department of Education website (in French)

This page was last edited on 27 January 2024, at 18:25