Joseph Jolinon (1885-1971) was a French writer. He was born in

La Clayette La Clayette () is a commune in the east-central French department of Saône-et-Loire. Geography La Clayette is situated in the southernmost part of Burgundy in the Charolais-Brionnais region, north of the historical province of Beaujolais. As t ...

and studied law in

Lille Lille (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders. Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in F ...

. He was mobilized in 1914, and served as a soldier throughout the First World War. Afterwards, he took up the law profession and settled in

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

. He became a professional writer in the 1920s. The author of more than two dozen books, he won the Grand prix du roman awarded by the

Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

in 1950 for his novel cycle ''Les Provinciaux''.Bio
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1885 births 1971 deaths People from Saône-et-Loire 20th-century French non-fiction writers Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners French male writers 20th-century French male writers {{France-novelist-19thC-stub