1945: Elsa Triolet, first woman to be awarded the Prix Goncourt
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The novelist Elsa Triolet was also a French resistance fighter. During the Second World War, she wrote several short stories. Four of them were collected in Le Premier Accroc coûte deux cents francs (“A Fine of Two Hundred Francs”), in which she poetically underlines the important role played by women in the Resistance, as well as evoking many current events. The book received the Prix Goncourt in 1945, for 1944.
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