Edmond and Jules Goncourt

Quick Facts Edmond and Jules Goncourt were French brothers, writers, and constant collaborators who made significant contributions to the development of the naturalist novel and to the fields of social history and art criticism. Above all, they are remembered for their perceptive, revealing Journal and for Edmond’s legacy, the Académie Goncourt, which annually awards the Prix Goncourt to the author of an outstanding work of French literature. The Goncourts’ widowed mother left them an income...