Week-end at Zuydcoote
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Week-end at Zuydcoote is a 1949 novel by French author Robert Merle
. It won the 1949 Prix Goncourt
, France's most prestigious literary prize. The novel was adapted to film in 1964 called Weekend at Dunkirk (French: Week-end à Zuydcoote). It was first published in English in 1950.
Robert Merle
Robert Merle was a French novelist.-Biography:Born in Tébessa in French Algeria, he moved to France in 1918. A professor of English Literature at several universities, during World War II Merle was conscripted in the French army and assigned as an interpreter to the British Expeditionary Force...
. It won the 1949 Prix Goncourt
Prix Goncourt
The Prix Goncourt 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"...
, France's most prestigious literary prize. The novel was adapted to film in 1964 called Weekend at Dunkirk (French: Week-end à Zuydcoote). It was first published in English in 1950.