Audrey Azoulay, Minister of Culture and Communication, extends her warmest congratulations to the winners of the 2016 Goncourt Awards for First Novel, Short Story and Poetry.
Joseph Andras, Prix Goncourt for the first novel for Of our wounded brothers (Actes Sud editions), shares with us the fate of a young communist worker, anti-colonialist activist, during the Algerian war.
Marie-Hélène Lafon, Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle for her collection Stories (Editions Buchet-Chastel) immerses the reader in a world steeped in the earth of its origins and in the imaginary land of literature.
Jean-Pierre Siméon receives the Goncourt Prize for Poetry for his entire work, especially for the literary event Poets' Spring, which he has led for years. The Poets' spring, supported by the Ministry of Culture and Communication, celebrates poetry to the wider public, and shows what poetry can do for the world.