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The Prix Goncourt des Lycéens is a French literary award created in 1987 as a sort of younger sibling of Prix Goncourt, a prestigious prize for French language literature. The ten members of the Académie Goncourt select twelve literary works as nominees. Some two thousand lycée (roughly equivalent to high school) students read all twelve novels, participate in discussions and debates about them, and ultimately vote on the winner.

While the prize bears the name of the Académie Goncourt, the competition is sponsored and organized by the French Ministry of National Education and the largest French media retailer Fnac, with the stated goal of encouraging young people to read.

Each year's winner is announced in Rennes on the same day as the announcement of the Prix Goncourt, usually in November.

Laureates of the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens

Year	Author	Title	Publisher (x times)	Notes
1988	Erik Orsenna	L'Exposition coloniale [fr]	Seuil	Also prix Goncourt
1989	Jean Vautrin	Un grand pas vers le bon Dieu [fr]	Grasset	Also prix Goncourt
1990	Françoise Lefèvre	Le Petit Prince Cannibale [fr]	Actes Sud
1991	Pierre Combescot	Les Filles du Calvaire [fr]	Grasset (2)	Also prix Goncourt
1992	Eduardo Manet	L'Île du lézard vert	Flammarion
1993	Anne Wiazemsky	Canines	Gallimard
1994	Claude Pujade-Renaud	Belle mère	Actes Sud (2)
1995	Andreï Makine	Le Testament français	Mercure de France	Also prix Goncourt et prix Médicis
1996	Nancy Huston	Instruments des ténèbres [fr]	Actes Sud (3)	Also prix du Livre Inter
1997	Jean-Pierre Milovanoff	Le Maître des paons	Julliard
1998	Luc Lang	Mille six cents ventres	Fayard
1999	Jean-Marie Laclavetine	Première Ligne [fr]	Gallimard (2)
2000	Ahmadou Kourouma	Allah n'est pas obligé [fr]	Seuil (2)	Also prix Renaudot
2001	Shan Sa	La Joueuse de go	Grasset (3)
2002	Laurent Gaudé	La Mort du roi Tsongor [fr]	Actes Sud (4)	Also prix des libraires
2003	Yann Apperry	Farrago	Grasset (4)
2004	Philippe Grimbert	Un secret [fr]	Grasset (5)
2005	Sylvie Germain	Magnus [fr]	Albin Michel
2006	Léonora Miano	Contours du jour qui vient [fr]	Plon
2007	Philippe Claudel	Brodeck's Report	Stock
2008	Catherine Cusset	Un brillant avenir [fr]	Gallimard (3)
2009	Jean-Michel Guenassia	Le Club des incorrigibles optimistes [fr]	Albin Michel (2)
2010	Mathias Énard	Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants	Actes Sud (5)
2011	Carole Martinez	Du domaine des Murmures [fr]	Gallimard (4)
2012	Joël Dicker	The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair	Éditions de Fallois [fr]	Also Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française
2013	Sorj Chalandon	Le Quatrième Mur [fr]	Grasset (6)
2014	David Foenkinos	Charlotte [fr]	Gallimard (5)	Also prix Renaudot
2015	Delphine de Vigan	D'après une histoire vraie [fr]	JC Lattès	Also prix Renaudot
2016	Gaël Faye	Petit Pays	Grasset	Also prix du roman Fnac
2017	Alice Zeniter	L'Art de perdre [fr]	Flammarion (2)	Also prix littéraire du Monde
2018	David Diop	Frère d'âme	Seuil (3)
2019	Karine Tuil	Les Choses humaines	Gallimard (6)	Also prix Interallié
2020	Djaïli Amadou Amal	Les Impatientes [fr]	Emmanuelle Collas	Also Choix Goncourt de l'Orient
2021	Clara Dupont-Monod	S'adapter	Stock	Also prix Femina
2022	Sabyl Ghoussoub	Beyrouth-sur-Seine	Stock
2023	Neige Sinno	Triste Tigre [fr]	Éditions P.O.L	Also prix Femina and prix littéraire du Monde