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Pierre Michon
Born
(1945-03-28) 28 March 1945 (age 79) Châtelus-le-Marcheix, Creuse, France
Nationality
French
Genre
Fiction
Notable awards
International Nonino Prize (2017)
Franz Kafka Prize (2019)
Spouse
Yaël Pachet
Pierre Michon (born 28 March 1945, Châtelus-le-Marcheix, Creuse) is a French writer. His first novel, Small Lives (1984), is widely regarded as a genuine masterpiece in contemporary French literature. [citation needed] He has won several prizes for Small Lives and for The Origin of the World (1996) as well as for his body of work. His novels and stories have been translated into German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Polish, Serbian, Czech, Norwegian, Estonian, Japanese and English. He won the 2017 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
With an oeuvre consisting of a stunning confessional novel—Vies minuscules (1984)—and a series of Plutarch-like "lives" devoted to famous artists and poets, Michon commands respect as a sensitive author and gifted stylist who seeks to comprehend how we can make sense out of the irrepressible impulses and unavoidable failures that fill our lives. Whether he is charting the misfortunes of the lowly, portraying his own difficult rise from rural poverty and a broken family to the completion of his first book, or plunging into the destinies of Watteau, Goya, Rimbaud, or Van Gogh, Michon poignantly captures the essence of the compelling courses our lives take.[1]
^Taylor, John (31 December 2011). "Of Dignity and Destiny (Pierre Michon)". Paths to Contemporary French Literature. Vol. 1. Transaction Publishers. pp. 82–86. ISBN 978-1-4128-3054-6. (quote from p. 82)
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