# The Prix Goncourt winners of the 1980s

The ten novels awarded the Prix Goncourt from 1980 to 1989, with Marguerite Duras' The Lover in 1984.

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## Top 10

1. **Le Jardin d'acclimatation — Yves Navarre** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1980. A bourgeois family and a lobotomised son.
2. **Anne Marie — Lucien Bodard** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1981. The author's mother in 1920s Paris.
3. **Dans la main de l'ange — Dominique Fernandez** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1982. The life of Pier Paolo Pasolini.
4. **Les Égarés — Frédérick Tristan** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1983. Two men and a literary hoax in the 19th century.
5. **The Lover — Marguerite Duras** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1984. A teenage girl and a rich Chinese man in Indochina; a huge success.
6. **Barbarous Wedding — Yann Queffélec** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1985. A child born of rape, rejected by his mother.
7. **Valet de nuit — Michel Host** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1986. A young man and an older woman.
8. **The Sacred Night — Tahar Ben Jelloun** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1987. A girl raised as a boy in Morocco; the first North African Goncourt winner.
9. **L'Exposition coloniale — Erik Orsenna** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1988. A Frenchman and rubber, from Brazil to Indochina.
10. **Un grand pas vers le Bon Dieu — Jean Vautrin** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1989. Cajun Louisiana in the early 20th century.

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