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Académie Goncourt

American  
[a-ka-day-mee gawn-koor] / a ka deɪ mi gɔ̃ˈkur /

noun

  1. Goncourt2


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Philippe Claudel, president of the Académie Goncourt, said that the evidence gathered thus far wasn’t enough to impugn Orélien’s book.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Similar to the original novella in its intense compression and written in the same incisive style, it has been heralded in France and recently won the best-first-novel prize from the Académie Goncourt.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2015

Marc Devade, alone in bed, snug in gray pajamas, dreaming of the Académie Goncourt.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 16, 2012

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