Michel Déon

Michel Déon (born the August 4th 1919 with Paris) is a French writer of the 20th century. Novelist, playwright and essay writer, it is generally attached to the movement of the Hussards.

Biography

After an adolescence passed between XVIe district of Paris and the Riviera, it makes its right while thinking already of a literary career.

Under the Occupation, it becomes in southern zone sub-editor to the French Action , near Charles Maurras.

After the War, it begins a life of voyages which it will not stop any more and which will nourish its novel constantly. In a more or less prolonged way, it remains in particular in Suisse, Italy, with the the United States, the Canada, the Portugal and in Greece.

Parallel to the composition of its books, it continues a career of journalist, editor for the Plon house and critic to the Nouvelles Arts persons . Also bound to the editions of the Roundtable, it is associated with the Hussards, although it disputed itself the existence of this movement.

After the freedom of tone of the Bullfight or the Carrot and the Stick , it gives a new orientation to its work by the recourse to the more traditional kind, but also more ambitious of the historical fresco ( wild Ponies ) or of the novel of formation ( the green Young man ).

Living between Greece and Ireland, he is elected in 1978 with the French Academy, where he is received by Félicien Marceau and speaks in praise of his predecessor, Jean Rostand. He is also commander of the Légion of honor.

Author of many illustrated works, in particular by Jean Cortot and Olivier Debré, his bibliography comprises more than 40 volumes. Its major works were joined together in only one volume published in the Quarto collection at Gallimard, in 2006.

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