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Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt (pronounced [ɛdmɔ̃ də ɡɔ̃kuʁ]; 26 May 1822 – 16 July 1896) was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt.
Edmond Huot de Goncourt né à Nancy le 26 mai 1822 et mort à Champrosay (Seine-et-Oise) le 16 juillet 1896 [Note 1], [1] est un écrivain français. Il est le fondateur de l'Académie Goncourt qui décerne chaque année le prix homonyme. Une partie de son œuvre est écrite en collaboration avec son frère, Jules de Goncourt.
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.
They were the first art writers to value the sketch (pencil and oil) and the fragment as stand-alone artworks, hallmarks of modern art a century later. They had a profound impact on French literature (both in the novel and in literary style in general) and particularly on later 19th-century taste.
The Goncourt brothers (UK: / ɡ ɒ n ˈ k ʊər /, US: / ɡ oʊ ŋ ˈ k ʊər /, French: ⓘ) were Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896) and Jules de Goncourt (1830–1870), both French naturalism writers who, as collaborative sibling authors, were inseparable in life.
The Académie Goncourt, founded under Edmond's will, is a body of ten men or women of letters that awards an annual prize (the Prix Goncourt) for imaginative prose. From: Goncourt, Edmond de in The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ». Subjects: Literature.
Edmond de and Jules de Goncourt. The brothers Edmond de (1822-1896) and Jules de (1830-1870) Goncourt collaborated on novels which originated the Naturalist school in France. Their "Journals" provide a fascinating picture of Parisian literary life in the 19th century.
French writer and literary and art critic Edmond-Louis-Antoine Huot de Goncourt published books and founded the Académie Goncourt.
One of Huot’s grandsons, Marc-Pierre de Goncourt, served in Napoleon’s armies in Italy and Russia, and was pensioned off after Waterloo. His second wife bore him two daughters, who died at an early age, and two sons: Edmond on May 26th, 1822, and Jules on December 19th, 1830.
Edmond (1822–1896) and Jules (1830–1870) de Goncourt, known to literary history as the Goncourt brothers, wrote and published jointly, signing their works with both their names, until Jules's death in 1870 at the age of forty, after which Edmond continued to write singly.
