The Goncourt Prize Jury, which annually announces a literary award, small in cash value but great in resulting sales of the book thus honored, announced today that it will make no award this year.
Thus ended the chance for Vintila Horia, Rumanian exile, to obtain the award, which had been previously voted him by the Goncourt Jury. He has, since, been charged with being a fascist writer and Nazi collaborationist during the war, who wrote anti-Semitic articles.
Horia had already announced that he would reject the Goncourt Prize because he did not want “to be a cause of dissension. The charges against him were made here last week by the Communist daily newspaper, L’Humanite, and later backed up by the Rumaniab Embassy here. Horia was seen to have failed to deny the charges when he told the press here that, during the war “even saints had erred.”
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