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Michel Tournier

Michel Tournier

AuthorBooks · Second hand1924-2016

Michel Tournier was a French writer. He won awards such as the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1967 for Friday, or, The Other Island and the Prix Goncourt for The Erl-King in 1970. His inspirations included traditional German culture, Catholicism and the philosophies of Gaston Bachelard. He resided in Choisel and was a member of the Académie Goncourt. His autobiography has been translated and published as The Wind Spirit. He was on occasion in contention for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Birth
1924
Death
2016
First book
1970
Years writing
56
Michel Tournier was born in the heart of Paris in 1924.
He is world-renowned for his masterful reinterpretation of the Robinson Crusoe myth in Friday and Robinson.
His work The Erl-King stands out as one of the most iconic pieces of 20th-century French literature.
In addition to being a novelist, he dedicated much of his talent to children's literature and translation.
Throughout his prolific career, he published over two hundred works exploring the depths of fiction.

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