# The Prix Goncourt winners of the 2000s

The ten novels awarded the Prix Goncourt from 2000 to 2009.

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- Oct 16, 2023 · Damien Gautier
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## Top 10

1. **Brecht's Mistress — Jacques-Pierre Amette** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2003. A spy close to Brecht in East Berlin.
2. **Ingrid Caven — Jean-Jacques Schuhl** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2000. A portrait of the singer and actress, the author's partner.
3. **Brazil Red — Jean-Christophe Rufin** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2001. A French expedition to Brazil in the 16th century.
4. **The Roving Shadows — Pascal Quignard** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2002. Fragments and meditations on time.
5. **The House of Scorta — Laurent Gaudé** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2004. A family from Apulia over a century.
6. **Trois jours chez ma mère — François Weyergans** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2005. A writer who can't manage to write his novel.
7. **The Kindly Ones — Jonathan Littell** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2006. The Holocaust narrated by an SS officer; also the Académie française's Grand Prix du roman.
8. **Alabama Song — Gilles Leroy** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2007. Zelda Fitzgerald's life in the first person.
9. **The Patience Stone — Atiq Rahimi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2008. An Afghan woman talks to her husband in a coma.
10. **Three Strong Women — Marie NDiaye** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2009. Three women between France and Senegal.

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