Déon, Michel
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Name (Latin)
Déon, Michel
Other forms of name
D̲eon, Misel
Michel, Édouard, 1919-2016
Date of birth
1919-08-04
Associated country
France
Occupation
Authors
Associated Language
fre
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Ariadnē, ē, hē lēsmonia, c1999:t.p. (Misel D̲eon)
- His Amours perdues, 1946.
- Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1919)
- New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 3, 2017(in obituary published Jan. 1: Michel Déon; b. Édouard Michel, Aug. 4, 1919, Paris; took his pen name from his maternal grandmother, Blanche Déon de Beaumont; settled in Tynagh, Ireland in the late 1960s; d. Wednesday [Dec. 28, 2016], Galway, aged 97; French writer and member of the Académie Française whose dozens of novels offered a witty, panoramic view of French society and history)
- LCN; note: b. 1919
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Michel Déon au salon du livre de Paris 2012
S. Veyrié, CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikipedia description:
Michel Déon (French: [deɔ̃]; 4 August 1919 – 28 December 2016) was a French novelist and literary columnist. He published over 50 works and was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Prix Interallié for his 1970 novel, Les Poneys sauvages (The Wild Ponies). Déon's 1973 novel Un taxi mauve received the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française. His novels have been translated into numerous languages. He is considered to have been one of the most innovative French writers of the 20th century. In 1978, Déon was elected to the Académie française.
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