Pierre Bergounioux

1949 -

country of citizenship: France

languages spoken, written or signed: French

educated at: École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

occupation: writer, diarist, literary critic, teacher, sculptor

award received: Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL, Prix Alain-Fournier, Roger Caillois Prix, Prix de la langue française, Officer of Arts and Letters

influenced by: René Descartes, Gustave Flaubert, William Faulkner

Pierre Bergounioux (born 1949 in Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze) is a French writer. He won the 1986 Prix Alain-Fournier for his second novel, Ce pas et le suivant. And in 2002, he won the SGDL literary grand prize for his body of work. Source: Wikipedia (en)