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World Service,30 Nov 1989,28 mins

Literary Prize-fighting in France

Meridian

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Report from New Orleans, Louisiana where the winning novel of The Prix Goncourt - Un Grand pas vers le Bon Dieu (A Great Step Towards the Good Lord) by Jean Herman - is set, and the question asked: has the award now become corrupted by literary prize fighting?

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