Frédéric Vitoux

Author

French writer

1944 -

country of citizenship: France
native language: French
language of expression: French
occupation: writer, literary critic
award received: Officier des Arts et des Lettres‎, Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, Prix de la critique, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud, Prix Biguet, bourse Goncourt de la biographie, Officer of the Order of Cultural Merit, prix Henri-Dumarest, prize Maillé Latour Landry
position held: president, seat 15 of the Académie française

Frédéric Vitoux (born 19 August 1944) is a French writer and journalist. He is known as a novelist, biographer and literary columnist. His father was a journalist. He was elected at the Académie Française in 2001. In 2010, he won the Édouard Drumont literary prize for his novel Grand Hotel Nelson.
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