Jérôme Tharaud (18 May 1874,

Saint-Junien Saint-Junien (; oc, Sent Junian) is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in west-central France. Its sister city is Jumet, Belgium. History The history of Saint-Junien began in AD 500, when an ascetic of ...

, Haute-Vienne – 28 January 1953, Varengeville-sur-Mer) was a French writer. He was awarded 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 ...

in 1906, and was elected the fifteenth occupant of Académie française seat 31 in 1938.

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