The Goncourt Prize

Once again, the winner of the Goncourt will be present at the Brive Book Fair from November 10 to 12, 2023 as well as the two other finalists.

The most prestigious prize, the Goncourt

The Goncourt Prize is the best-known and oldest literature prize in France. It is awarded each year at the beginning of November by the Académie Goncourt after two pre-selections among the books edited and published during the year. This prize was, in fact, created to reward each year “ the best work of imagination in prose, published in the year ". It is attributed almost exclusively to a novel.

View of the hand of a lady leafing through a book

Le Goncourt 2023

Jean-Baptiste Andrea is the 2023 winner of the famous literary prize, for his love-friendship novel "Watch over her". (Editions: L’Iconoclaste).

This idealist who has a habit of abandoning himself to the imagination relates a love-friendship story between an insolent little girl and a boy sculptor of an enigmatic Pietà. This novel is set in Italy and evokes the two world wars then the transition to modernity.

Jean-Baptiste Andrea, 46 years old, came to literature late but he knew how to seduce his audience with his 4 novels

How to meet Jean-Baptiste Andrea at the Book Fair?

He will sign his novel on November 10, 11 and 12 and will be in the spotlight at two meetings:

Romantic, Saturday November 11 at 14:30 p.m. at the Halle Georges Brassens surrounded by Laurent Binet and Nicolas Chemla
The awards season, Sunday November 12 at 11 a.m. at the Théâtre de Brive.

Past winners

Finally, over the last five years, the Goncourt Prize has been awarded to:

Leila Slimani for chanson douce in 2016.
Eric Vuillard for The Agenda in 2017.
Nicolas Mathieu for Their children after them in 2018.
Jean-Paul Dubois for Not all people live in the world in the same way. in 2019.
Hervé Le Tellier for his novel The Anomaly in 2020.
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr for The most secret memory of men in 2021.
Brigitte Giraud for her work Live Fast in 2022. .

The Goncourt jury

Furthermore, the Goncourt Academy is made up of ten volunteer members appointed for life:

Didier Decoin, member since 1995.
Françoise Chandernagor, member since 1995.
Tahar Ben Jelloun, member since 2008.
Patrick Rambaud, member since 2008.
Pierre Assouline, member since 2012.
Philippe Claudel, member since 2012.
Paule Constant, member since 2013.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, member since 2016.
Pascal Bruckner, member since 2020.
Camille Laurens, member since 2020.