Pierre Michon (born 28 March 1945 in
Châtelus-le-Marcheix, Creuse) is a French writer. His first novel, ''Small Lives'' (1984), is widely regarded as a genuine masterpiece in contemporary French literature. He has won several prizes for ''Small Lives'' and for ''The Origin of the World'' (1996) as well as for his body of work. His novels and stories have been translated into German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Polish, Serbian, Czech, Norwegian, Estonian, Japanese and English. He won the 2017
International Nonino Prize in Italy.
Works
* 1984: ''Small Lives'' (''Vies minuscules'').
**Translated by Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays for Archipelago Books, 2008.
* 1988: ''Life of Joseph Roulin'' (''Vie de Joseph Roulin'').''
**Translated by Wyatt Mason for Mercury House and included in ''Masters and Servants'', 1997.
* 1997: ''L'empereur d'Occident''.
* 1990: ''Masters and Servants'' (''Maîtres et serviteurs'').
**Translated by Wyatt Mason for Mercury House, 1997.
* 1991: ''Rimbaud the Son'' (''Rimbaud le fils'').
**Translated by Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays for Yale University Press, 2013.
* 1996: ''The Origin of the World'' (''La Grande Beune'').
**Translated by Wyatt Mason for Mercury House, 2002.
* 1996: ''The King of the Wood'' (''Le roi du bois'').
**Translated by Wyatt Mason for Mercury House and included in ''Masters and Servants'', 1997.
* 1997: ''Trois auteurs''.
* 1997: ''Winter Mythologies'' (''Mythologies d'hiver'').
**Translated by Ann Jefferson for Yale University Press, 2017.
* 2002: ''Abbots'' (''Abbés'').
**Translated by Ann Jefferson for Yale University Press, 2017.
* 2002: ''Corps du roi''.
* 2007: ''Le roi vient quand il veut : propos sur la littérature''.
* 2009: ''The Eleven'' (''Les Onze'').
**Translated by Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays for Archipelago Books, 2013.
Awards
*
2002:
Prix Décembre
*
2009
2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
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Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
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2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
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Petrarca-Preis
*
2017
2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.
Events January
* January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...
:
International Nonino Prize
*
2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
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Franz Kafka Prize
References
External links
Pierre Michon at publisher's site(in French)
(in French)
Critical bibliography (Auteurs.contemporain.info)(in French)
(English translations)
1945 births
Living people
People from Creuse
20th-century French non-fiction writers
21st-century French non-fiction writers
Prix Décembre winners
Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners
20th-century French male writers
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