Patrick Grainville
1947
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: novel, autobiography
country of citizenship: France
native language: French
languages spoken, written or signed: French
educated at: Paris-Sorbonne University - Paris IV, Lycée Henri-IV
occupation: writer, literary critic
award received: Prix Goncourt, Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL, Grand prix de littérature Paul-Morand, Officer of the National Order of Merit
position held: seat 9 of the Académie française
Patrick Grainville (born 1 June 1947 Villers-sur-Mer, Calvados) is a French novelist. He spent his childhood in Villerville, a small town east of Deauville. An associate professor of letters, he received the Prix Goncourt in 1976, 29 years old, for his fourth novel, Les Flamboyants ("The Flasher").He has written extensively on Africa, where he undertook a cooperative mission. He is professor of French at the Lycée Évariste Galois in Sartrouville. Grainville is also literary critic for Le Figaro. In 2018, he was elected to the Académie Française. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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