The Prix Goncourt turns 120! Here is the history of every book that ever won and the members of its spirited jury, the Académie Goncourt.

2023 marks the 120th anniversay of the literary prize founded by writer and critic Edmond de Goncourt, first awarded on December 21, 1903 to John-Antoine Nau for his novel Enemy Force. This book recounts the history of a prize that soon became the most prestigious and coveted of them all. A work of encyclopedic ambition, it consists of 120 entries, each recontextualizing an award-winning novel. From between the lines emerges the history of the Académie Goncourt, the prize jury, and the great controversies that rocked the French literary landscape over the last century.