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Jean Dutourd
French writer

Jean Dutourd

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French writer
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Gender
Male
Place of birth
Paris, France
Place of death
Paris, France
Age
91 years
Family
Children:
Frédéric Dutourd
Education
University of Paris (1896-1968)
Lycée Janson-de-Sailly
Notable Works
Le Feld-Maréchal von Bonaparte
 
Mémoires de Mary Watson
 
The Best Butter
 
Awards
Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour
 
Commander of the National Order of Merit
 
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎
(1994)
Prince Pierre Award
(1961)
Prix Interallié
(1952)
Daudet Prize
(1999)
Saint-Simon Award
(2001)
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Biography

Jean Gwenaël Dutourd ([dytuʁ]; 14 January 1920 – 17 January 2011) was a French novelist.

Biography

Dutourd was born in Paris. His mother died when he was seven years old.At the age of twenty, he was taken prisoner fifteen days after Germany's invasion of France in World War II.He escaped six weeks later and returned to Paris where he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He entered the Resistance and was again arrested in early 1944. He escaped and took part in the Liberation of Paris. He was a candidate for the Democratic Union of Labour (UDT) in the legislative elections of 1967.

His first work, Le Complexe de César appeared in 1946 and received the prix Stendhal.He was elected to the Académie française on 30 November 1978.In 1997 he was elected as a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Department of Language and Literature.

Dutourd died in Paris on 17 January 2011, at the age of 91.

Translations

L'Œil d'Apollon, by G. K. Chesterton; Les Muses parlent, by Truman Capote; and Le Vieil Homme et la Mer, by Ernest Hemingway.

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