Goncourt

[gawn-koor, gon-koor]

noun

1. Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de 1822–96, and his brother Jules Alfred Huot de 1830–70, French art critics, novelists, and historians: collaborators until the death of Jules.

2. Prix Goncourt an annual award of money made by a French literary society Académie Goncourt for the best prose work of the year.

Goncourt

/ ɡɔ̃kur /

noun

1. Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de (ɛdmɔ̃ lwi ɑ̃twan yo də), 1822–96, and his brother, Jules Alfred Huot de (ʒyl alfrɛd), 1830–70, French writers, noted for their collaboration, esp on their Journal , and for the Académie Goncourt founded by Edmond's will

Example Sentences

Macron’s move angered many Algerians, who view the award of France's Prix Goncourt to Daoud as a political rather than a literary gesture.

From BBC

Kamel Daoud was awarded the Goncourt prize earlier this month for his novel Houris, a searing account of Algeria’s 1990s civil war in which up to 200,000 people were killed.

From BBC

For the first time, an Algerian author has won France’s top literary award, the Goncourt, with a searing account of his country’s 1990s civil war.

From BBC

Her taste, developed over a lifetime of nurturing and being nurtured by literature and art, is considered a bellwether, with several fellows going on to win the Nobel, the Pulitzer, the Booker, the Prix Goncourt.

From New York Times

Maybe the biggest reason of all that Epstein and Franzen — and the Goncourts and Samuel Johnson before them — have been so ineffective at defending the novel is that they’ve been ineffective at defining it.

From Los Angeles Times