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Prix Goncourt

Definition: Prix Goncourt

Prix Goncourt

Noun

1. An award given annually for contributions to French literature.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Prix Goncourt

English words defined with "Prix Goncourt": Edmond de Goncourt, Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de GoncourtGoncourt. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Prix Goncourt

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Prix Goncourt is the most prestigious prize in French language literature, given to the author of "the best imaginary prose work of the year".

Edmond de Goncourt, a successful author, critic, and publisher, bequeathed his entire estate for the foundation and maintenance of the Académie Goncourt. In honour of his brother and collaborator, Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt, (1830-1870), the Académie has awarded the Prix Goncourt every December since 1903. The jury that determines the winner meets at the Drouant restaurant to make its decision. The award, though nominal, ensures the winner celebrity status and a boost in sales.

A few of the authors who have won the prize are: Marcel Proust, Jean Fayard, Simone de Beauvoir , Georges Duhamel, Alphonse de Chateaubriant, Antonine Maillet.

Some decisions for awarding the prize were controversial, the most famous case being the decision to award the prize 1919 to Marcel Proust; this was met with indignation, since many in the public felt that the prize should have gone to Roland Dorgelès for Les Croix de bois, a novel about the First World War, for the following reasons:

Full list of prize winners.

See also: List of prizes, medals, and awards

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Prix Goncourt."

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Anagrams: Prix Goncourt

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-g-i-n-o-o-p-r-r-t-u-x"

-2 letters: corrupting, corruption, proctoring.

-3 letters: incorrupt, procuring, uprooting.

-4 letters: coopting, courting, protonic, trooping, trouping.

-5 letters: contour, cooping, cornuto, corrupt, couping, crouton, curring, ingroup, outcrop, outgrin, outring, porcino, portico, porting, portion, pouring, pouting, princox, proctor, prurigo, purring, rooting, rouping, routing, ruction, touring, tricorn, trucing.

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Alternative Orthography: Prix Goncourt


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0069 0078      0047 006F 006E 0063 006F 0075 0072 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
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