''Faux passeports'' subtitled 'ou les mémoires d'un agitateur' in its original version, is a Belgian novel by

Charles Plisnier Charles Plisnier (13 December 1896, Ghlin – 17 July 1952, Brussels) was a Belgian writer from Wallonia. Biography He was a Communist in his youth and briefly belonged to the Trotskyist movement in the late 1920s. He disavowed communism, ...

. It was first published by Corrêa in 1937. It received the prestigious

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 ...

, making Plisnier the first foreigner to win the prize.

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1937 Belgian novels French-language novels Prix Goncourt winning works {{Belgium-stub