Prix Goncourt des Lycéens
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The Prix Goncourt des Lycéens was created in 1987 as a sort of younger sibling of the Prix Goncourt, the most prestigious prize for French language literature. The ten members of the Académie Goncourt select twelve literary works as nominees. Almost 2,000 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 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.
[edit] Prize winners
- 1988: Erik Orsenna, L’Exposition coloniale (Seuil)
- 1989: Jean Vautrin, Un grand pas vers le Bon Dieu (Grasset)
- 1990: Françoise Lefèvre, Le Petit Prince cannibale (Actes Sud)
- 1991: Pierre Combescot, Les Filles du calvaire (Grasset)
- 1992: Edouardo Manet, L’Ile du lézard vert (Flammarion)
- 1993: Anne Wiazemsky, Canines (Gallimard)
- 1994: Claude Pujade-Renaud, Belle-Mère (Actes Sud)
- 1995: Andreï Makine, Le Testament français (Mercure de France)
- 1996: Nancy Huston, Instruments des ténèbres (Actes Sud)
- 1997: Jean-Pierre Milovanoff, Le Maître des paons (Julliard)
- 1998: Luc Lang, Mille six cents ventres (Fayard)
- 1999: Jean-Marie Laclavetine, Première ligne (Gallimard)
- 2000: Ahmadou Kourouma, Allah n’est pas obligé (Seuil)
- 2001: Shan Sa, La Joueuse de Go (Grasset)
- 2002: Laurent Gaudé, La Mort du roi Tsongor (Actes Sud)
- 2003: Yann Apperry, Farrago (Grasset)
- 2004: Philippe Grimbert, Un secret (Grasset)
- 2005: Sylvie Germain, Magnus (Albin Michel)
- 2006: Léonora Miano, "Contours du jour qui vient" (Plon)
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- http://www.gdlfnac.com (Official site, in French)
- http://www.education.gouv.fr/actu/goncourtlyc.html (Ministry of Education press release announcing 2005 winner, in French)
