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Goncourt [gawn-koor; for 2 also English gon-koo r] Examples noun
- Ed·mond Louis An·toine Hu·ot de [ed-mawn lwee ahn-twan y-oh duh] /ɛdˈmɔ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈtwan üˈoʊ də/, 1822–96, and his brother Jules Al·fred Huot de [zhyl al-fred] /ʒyl alˈfrɛd/, 1830–70, French art critics, novelists, and historians: collaborators until the death of Jules.
- Prix [pree; English pree] /pri; English pri/, an annual award of money made by a French literary society (Académie Goncourt) for the best prose work of the year.
Examples from the Web for goncourt Contemporary Examples of goncourt
The Goncourt, the French literary prize, has lifelong judges—often themselves novelists.
John Sutherland
October 6, 2009
When the Booker Prize was launched as the “British Goncourt” in 1969, it was met by a universal guffaw.
John Sutherland
October 6, 2009
But at least the Goncourt, with its derisory 50NF cash reward, had clean hands.
John Sutherland
October 6, 2009
Historical Examples of goncourt
This is a novel which was awarded the Goncourt prize in 1921.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922
Various
The essay on the Goncourt is important, and we find in it typical dissociation.
Ezra Pound
And Goncourt assimilated this method with surprising results.
James Huneker
His characters, like Goncourt’s, suffer from paralysis of the will, from hypersthesia.
James Huneker
Here she became acquainted with Zola, Goncourt, Daudet, and others.
The Modern Woman’s Rights Movement
Kaethe Schirmacher
British Dictionary definitions for goncourt Goncourt noun
- Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de (ɛdmɔ̃ lwi ɑ̃twan yo də), 1822–96, and his brother, Jules Alfred Huot de (ʒyl alfrɛd), 1830–70, French writers, noted for their collaboration, esp on their Journal, and for the Académie Goncourt founded by Edmond’s will