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biography
pronunciation:
[gõkoor]
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| Edmond de Goncourt (1822–96) and Jules de Goncourt (1830–70) Novelist collaborators, born in Nancy and Paris, France, respectively. They began as artists, in 1849 travelling across France for watercolour sketches. They then collaborated in studies of history and art, and took to writing novels, notably Germinie Lacerteux (1865) and Madame Gervaisais (1869). They are also remembered for their Journal, begun in 1851, a detailed record of French social and literary life which Edmond continued for over 40 years. Edmond also founded in his will the Académie Goncourt to foster fiction, and the Goncourt Prize is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding work of French literature. |
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