Taken by the painter, Pedro Uhart at the Hôtel La Louisiane Paris
Born
(1913-11-03)3 November 1913 Cairo, Egypt
Died
22 June 2008(2008-06-22) (aged 94) Paris, France
Occupation
Writer
Language
French
Albert Cossery (3 November 1913 – 22 June 2008) was an Egyptian-born French writer.[1] Although Cossery lived most of his life in Paris and only wrote in the French language, all of his novels were either set in his country of birth, Egypt, or in an imaginary Middle Eastern country. He was nicknamed "The Voltaire of the Nile". His writings pay tribute to the humble and to the misfits of his childhood in Cairo, as well as praise a form of laziness and simplicity very distant from our contemporary society.
Albert Cossery was well known in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where he lived in the same hotel, Hotel La Louisiane, since 1945.
^David L. Parris, « Albert Cossery, Montreur d'hommes – L'œuvre en langue française d'un auteur égyptien » [archive], éditions Peter Lang, 2009, (ISBN 9783039115655), p. 137.
AlbertCossery (3 November 1913 – 22 June 2008) was an Egyptian-born French writer. Although Cossery lived most of his life in Paris and only wrote in...
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Yoichi Maeda 1988: Jacques Rabemananjara 1989: Hubert Reeves 1990: AlbertCossery 1991: Léon-Joseph Suenens 1992: Khac Vien Nguyen and Maurice Métral...
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translated from French by Edward Gauvin (Small Beer) The Jokers by AlbertCossery, translated from French by Anna Moschovakis (New York Review Books)...
Edmund Wilson (7 September 1946). "Books: Orwell's "Animal Farm", AlbertCossery's "Men God Forgot"". The New Yorker. Retrieved 16 January 2024. Kyaw...
Simenon (2007) The Possession by Annie Ernaux (2008) The Jokers by AlbertCossery (2010) Commentary by Marcelle Sauvageo (2013, with Christine Schwartz...
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