The Prix Goncourt winners of the 1980s
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Le Jardin d'acclimatation — Yves Navarre · Anne Marie — Lucien Bodard · Dans la main de l'ange — Dominique Fernandez. (Updated Jun 25, 2021.)
The ten novels awarded the Prix Goncourt from 1980 to 1989, with Marguerite Duras' The Lover in 1984.
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Top 10
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Le Jardin d'acclimatation — Yves Navarre
1980. A bourgeois family and a lobotomised son.
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Anne Marie — Lucien Bodard
1981. The author's mother in 1920s Paris.
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Dans la main de l'ange — Dominique Fernandez
1982. The life of Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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Les Égarés — Frédérick Tristan
1983. Two men and a literary hoax in the 19th century.
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The Lover — Marguerite Duras
1984. A teenage girl and a rich Chinese man in Indochina; a huge success.
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Barbarous Wedding — Yann Queffélec
1985. A child born of rape, rejected by his mother.
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7
Valet de nuit — Michel Host
1986. A young man and an older woman.
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The Sacred Night — Tahar Ben Jelloun
1987. A girl raised as a boy in Morocco; the first North African Goncourt winner.
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L'Exposition coloniale — Erik Orsenna
1988. A Frenchman and rubber, from Brazil to Indochina.
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10
Un grand pas vers le Bon Dieu — Jean Vautrin
1989. Cajun Louisiana in the early 20th century.
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Comments (2)
L'Amant, évidemment, le Goncourt le plus lu de la décennie.
La Nuit sacrée de Tahar Ben Jelloun, magnifique.