Name Jean Dutourd Role Novelist | Nominations Prix Goncourt | |
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Died January 17, 2011, Paris, France Books The Best Butter, The Horrors of Love, A dog's head | ||
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Jean Gwenaël Dutourd ([dytuʁ]; 14 January 1920 – 17 January 2011) was a French novelist.
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- N 4 les grosses t tes avec jacques martin sim olivier de kersauson et jean dutourd
- Jean dutourd
- Biography
- Translations
- References
Jean dutourd
Biography
Dutourd was born in Paris. His mother died when he was seven years old. At the age of twenty, he was taken prisoner fifteen days after Germany's invasion of France in World War II. He escaped six weeks later and returned to Paris where he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He entered the Resistance and was again arrested in early 1944. He escaped and took part in the Liberation of Paris. He was a candidate for the Democratic Union of Labour (UDT) in the legislative elections of 1967.
His first work, Le Complexe de César appeared in 1946 and received the prix Stendhal. He was elected to the Académie française on 30 November 1978. In 1997 he was elected as a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Department of Language and Literature.
Dutourd died in Paris on 17 January 2011, at the age of 91.
Translations
L'Œil d'Apollon, by G. K. Chesterton; Les Muses parlent, by Truman Capote; and Le Vieil Homme et la Mer, by Ernest Hemingway.