Académie Goncourt
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He repeatedly contributed to the collective battle against forgetting the Holocaust by mining his own memories, and thanks to his oeuvre and political activity he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, made a member of the Académie Goncourt, and given the German Peace Prize, among other honors.
From Salon
The prize, selected by 10 members of the Académie Goncourt, comes with a symbolic award of 10 euros, or about $12, but it usually results in sharp spikes in sales in France and beyond.
From New York Times
Her death was announced by the Académie Goncourt, where she had been a member since 1983 and president from 2002 to 2014.
From New York Times
The Academie Goncourt, whose prize she won with her novel "To Forget Palermo," said she died late Wednesday in her hometown of Marseille.
From US News
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
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