René Benjamin (1885 in

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, France - 1948 in

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, France) was a French writer. In 1915 he received the

Prix Goncourt The Prix Goncourt (french: Le prix Goncourt, , ''The Goncourt Prize'') is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward o ...

for his novel ''Gaspard''. In 1938, he became the first Goncourt laureate to be appointed a member of the

Académie Goncourt The Société littéraire des Goncourt (Goncourt Literary Society), usually called the Académie Goncourt (Goncourt Academy), is a French literary organisation based in Paris. It was founded in 1900 by the French writer and publisher Edmond de Go ...

, the jury that decides the winner of the prize.

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* 1885 births 1948 deaths Writers from Paris People affiliated with Action Française 20th-century French novelists 20th-century French male writers French military personnel of World War I Prix Goncourt winners Order of the Francisque recipients French male novelists {{France-novelist-19thC-stub