Frédéric Vitoux (; born 19 August 1944) is a French

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and

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. He is known as a novelist, biographer and literary columnist. His father was a journalist. He was elected at the

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in 2001. In 2010, he won the

Édouard Drumont Édouard Adolphe Drumont (3 May 1844 – 5 February 1917) was a French journalist, author and politician, most often remembered for his antisemitic ideology and animus. He initiated the Antisemitic League of France in 1889, and was the founder ...

literary prize for his novel ''Grand Hotel Nelson''.

Bibliography

*1973 ''Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Misère et parole'' (

Éditions Gallimard Éditions Gallimard (), formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961), is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003, it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles. Founded by G ...

) *1973 ''Cartes postales'' (Gallimard) *1976 ''Les Cercles de l'orage'' (Grasset) *1976 ''Bébert, le chat de Louis-Ferdinand Céline'' (Grasset) *1978 ''Yedda jusqu'à la fin'' (Grasset) *1978 ''

Céline Céline, sometimes spelled Celine, is a French female first name version of Latin origin, coming from ''Caelīna'', the feminine form of the Roman cognomen ''Caelīnus'', meaning "heavenly". *1979 ''Un amour de chat'' (Balland) *1981 ''Mes îles Saint-Louis'' (Le Chêne) *1982 ''Gioacchino Rossini'' (Le Seuil) *1983 ''Fin de saison au Palazzo Pedrotti'' (Le Seuil) *1985 ''La Nartelle'' (Le Seuil) *1986 ''Il me semble désormais que Roger est en Italie'' (Actes-Sud) *1987 ''Riviera'' (Le Seuil) *1988 '' La Vie de Céline'' (Grasset) *1990 ''Sérénissime'' (Le Seuil) *1990 ''L'Art de vivre à Venise'' (Flammarion) *1992 ''Charles et Camille'' (Le Seuil) *1993 ''Paris vu du Louvre'' (A. Biro) *1994 ''La Comédie de Terracina'' (Le Seuil) *1996 ''Deux femmes'' (Le Seuil) *1998 ''Esther et le diplomate'' (Le Seuil) *2000 ''L'ami de mon père'' (Le Seuil) *2001 ''Le Var pluriel et singulier'' (Équinoxe) *2003 ''Des dahlias rouge et mauve'' (Le Seuil) *2004 ''Villa Sémiramis'' (Le Seuil) *2005 ''Le roman de Figaro'' (Fayard)

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