Michel Host (1942 – 6 June 2021Michel Host, prix Goncourt 1986, décède des suites du Covid-19
) was a French writer.

Biography

He was born in

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. He taught school, then high school. He lived in Paris, where he taught language and literature of the Spanish Golden Age in

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(1996) after Hispanic studies at the Sorbonne. He was a columnist for the literary journal ''Revue des deux mondes'' and ''Regards''. Co-founder of the magazine ''L’Art du bref'' in 1995, he received the

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in 1986 for his second novel, ''Valet de nuit'' (Grasset). Host died on 6 June 2021, from COVID-19 in

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during the

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Awards

* 2003 Grand Prize of the news of the S.G.D.L. * 1996 Book Prize in Picardy * 1986

Bibliography

* ''L'Ombre, le Fleuve, l'Eté'', 1983, Éditions Grasset, prix Robert Walser 1984 (Bienne, Suisse) pour la première fois décerné à un romancier français. * ''Valet de nuit'', 1986, Éditions Grasset, prix Goncourt * ''Les Cercles d'or'', 1989, Éditions Grasset * ''La Maison Traum'', 1990, Éditions Grasset * ''Peter Sis, l'imagier du temps'', 1996, Éditions Grasset * ''La Soirée'', 1989 (épuisé), réédition de poche, Ed. Mille & Une Nuits, 2002, Éditions Maren Sell * ''Images de l'Empire'', 1991 Éditions Ramsay / De Cortanze, réédition 2001, Ed. Olympio, on line * ''Forêt Forteresse, conte pour aujourd'hui'', 1993, Édition La Différence * with A. Absire, J-C. Bologne, D. Noguez, C. Pujade-Renaud, M. Winckler, D. Zimmermann : ''L'Affaire Grimaudi,'' roman, 1995, Éditions du Rocher * ''Les attentions de l'enfance'', 1996, Éditions Bernard Dumerchez, prix de Picardie * Déterrages/villes, poèmes, 1997, Éditions Bernard Dumerchez * ''Journal de vacances d'une chatte parisienne'', 1996, Éditions La Goutte d'Eau * ''Roxane,'' 1997, Éditions Zulma-Calmann-Lévy * ''Graines de pages, proses & poèmes sur 60 photos de Claire Garate'', 1999, Éditions Eboris, Genève * ''Alentours, petites proses,'' 2001, Éditions de l'Escampette * ''Regards,'' album, 1999, Éditions Blanc-Mesnil 2000 * ''Poème d'Hiroshima,'' oratorio, Éditions Rhubarbe, 2005 * ''Le petit chat de neige,'' Éditions Rhubarbe, 2007

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Host, Michel 1942 births 2021 deaths French male writers People from Flemish Brabant Prix Goncourt winners Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in France