Paul Colin (writer)

French novelist

Paul Colin (15 May 1920 – 20 March 2018) was a French novelist who received the Prix Goncourt in 1950 for Les jeux sauvages.^[1] Colin died in March 2018 at the age of 98.^[2]

Works

Les jeux sauvages, Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 1950. Translated into English as Savage Play, Dutton, New York, 1953
Terre paradis, Gallimard, 1959

References

^ Goncourt oubliés 2: Paul Colin, 1950 (in French), L'Express, Paris, 5 April 2012
^ Voir Le Monde, Edition du 24 mars 2018, page 20

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Laureates of the Prix Goncourt

1903–1925

1903 John Antoine Nau
1904 Léon Frapié
1905 Claude Farrère
1906 Jérôme Tharaud and Jean Tharaud
1907 Émile Moselly
1908 Francis de Miomandre
1909 Marius-Ary Leblond
1910 Louis Pergaud
1911 Alphonse de Châteaubriant
1912 André Savignon
1913 Marc Elder
1914 Adrien Bertrand
1915 René Benjamin
1916 Henri Barbusse
1917 Henry Malherbe
1918 Georges Duhamel
1919 Marcel Proust
1920 Ernest Pérochon
1921 René Maran
1922 Henri Béraud
1923 Lucien Fabre
1924 Thierry Sandre
1925 Maurice Genevoix

1926–1950

1951–1975

1976–2000

2001–present

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