| Frédéric Vitoux | |
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| Born | (1944-08-19) 19 August 1944 (age 80) Vitry-aux-Loges, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Education | Lycée Charlemagne |
| Occupation(s) | Writer Journalist |
| Known for | Member of the Académie Française |
Frédéric Vitoux (French pronunciation: [fʁedeʁik vitu]; born 19 August 1944) is a French writer and journalist.
He is known as a novelist, biographer and literary columnist. His father was a journalist. He was elected at the Académie Française in 2001. In 2010, he won the Édouard Drumont literary prize for his novel Grand Hotel Nelson.
Bibliography
- 1973 Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Misère et parole (Éditions Gallimard)
- 1973 Cartes postales (Gallimard)
- 1976 Les Cercles de l'orage (Grasset)
- 1976 Bébert, le chat de Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Grasset)
- 1978 Yedda jusqu'à la fin (Grasset)
- 1978 Céline (Belfond)
- 1979 Un amour de chat (Balland)
- 1981 Mes îles Saint-Louis (Le Chêne)
- 1982 Gioacchino Rossini (Le Seuil)
- 1983 Fin de saison au Palazzo Pedrotti (Le Seuil)
- 1985 La Nartelle (Le Seuil)
- 1986 Il me semble désormais que Roger est en Italie (Actes-Sud)
- 1987 Riviera (Le Seuil)
- 1988 La Vie de Céline (Grasset)
- 1990 Sérénissime (Le Seuil)
- 1990 L'Art de vivre à Venise (Flammarion)
- 1992 Charles et Camille (Le Seuil)
- 1993 Paris vu du Louvre (A. Biro)
- 1994 La Comédie de Terracina (Le Seuil)
- 1996 Deux femmes (Le Seuil)
- 1998 Esther et le diplomate (Le Seuil)
- 2000 L'ami de mon père (Le Seuil)
- 2001 Le Var pluriel et singulier (Équinoxe)
- 2003 Des dahlias rouge et mauve (Le Seuil)
- 2004 Villa Sémiramis (Le Seuil)
- 2005 Le roman de Figaro (Fayard)
References
- Magazine litteraire: Issues 389-393 2000 "Le père de Frédéric Vitoux, journaliste au Petit Parisien pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, avait également "
- "Prix littéraire".
- Bitter carnival: ressentiment and the abject hero - Page 218 Michael André Bernstein - 1992 "Barthes's description is quoted in a list of observations about Céline, some favorable, others hostile, gathered by Frédéric Vitoux in his study Céline (Paris: Pierre Belfond, 1978), pp. 243–44"
External links
- (in French) L'Académie française
| Académie française seat 15 | |
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- 1944 births
- Living people
- People from Loiret
- 20th-century French novelists
- 21st-century French novelists
- French literary critics
- Members of the Académie Française
- Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners
- French male novelists
- 20th-century French biographers
- Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- Officers of the Legion of Honour
- Officers of the Order of Cultural Merit (Monaco)
- Prix Goncourt de la Biographie winners
- 20th-century French male writers
- 21st-century French male writers
- French male biographers