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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- Goncourt, Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de 1822-1896. French writer who collaborated with his brother Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt (1830-1870) on numerous works, most notably naturalistic novels such as Madame Gervaisais (1869).
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- n. French writer who collaborated with his brother Jules de Goncourt on many books and who in his will established the Prix Goncourt (1822-1896)
- n. French writer who collaborated with his brother Edmond de Goncourt on many books (1830-1870)
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Examples
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( "Les petites pudeurs n'existent pas pour les mères," remarks Goncourt, _Journal des Goncourt_, vol. iii, p. 5.)
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The style of the painter has been judged as analogous to the novelist's; yet, apart from a preference for the same subjects for the "modernity" of Paris, there is not much in Degas that recalls Goncourt's staccato, febrile, sparkling, "decomposed", impressionistic prose.
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Jonathan Littell's The Wellwishers, initially published in France as Les Bienveillantes – he is the first American to win the Prix Goncourt – has been highly controversial.
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Also in the running are the Australian writer David Malouf, and the Indian Canadian novelist Rohinton Mistry, while the Chinese novelist Wang Anyi, the Goncourt prize-winning Lebanese author Amin Maalouf and the Italian playwright Dacia Maraini complete the shortlist.
Man Booker Prize: Amelia Hill on the 'Olympics of literature'
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An Author by Any Other Name The newly announced winner of the Goncourt, one of France's most prestigious literary prizes, is Alexis Jenni, a debut author so distant from Paris literary circles that at first it was thought his novel "L'Art français de la guerre" might have been penned by a famous writer using a pseudonym.
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You, Raoul de Goncourt, I shall punish as you deserve for being in such bad company.
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When I made immediately to begin with de Goncourt, Bohemond protested that I should rest a space.
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Goncourt, whose presence surprised me, he being too good and noble a man for the company he kept.
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By this time Pasquini and de Goncourt had sprung to him, and he was sinking into their arms.
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At this, de Goncourt showed distressed acquiescence.
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