Michel Déon

Michel Déon, 2012

Michel Déon (born August 4, 1919 in Paris , † December 28, 2016 in Galway , Ireland ) was a French writer.

Michel Déon was born in Paris in 1919 and studied law there. He was then a war correspondent in southern France . From 1942 to 1944 he was the editorial secretary of the authoritarian-nationalist magazine L ' Action française and assistant to Charles Maurras . After living in Greece for a long time, Ireland later became his adopted home. In 1970 he received the Prix ​​Interallié for the novel "Les poneys sauvages" , in 1973 the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française for his work "Un taxi mauve" . In 1978 he became a member of the Académie française .

Awards

• 1978: Member of the Académie française (8th seat)
• Legion of Honor

Works (selection)

• 1950: Je ne veux jamais l'oublier
• 1952: La Corrida
• 1956: Les trompeuses espérances
• 1960: La carotte et le bâton
• 1970: Les poneys sauvages , awarded the Prix ​​Interallié , German: The wild ponies , translated by Gerhard Heller
• 1973: Irish interlude . Novel. Ehrenwirth, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-431-02413-0 (French: Un taxi mauve . Translated by Margaret Carroux, awarded the Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie française ).
• 1975: Le jeune homme vert
• 1977: Les vingt ans du jeune homme vert
• 1981: Un déjeuner de soleil
• 1984: Je vous écris d'Italie

Film adaptations

• 1977: The mauve taxi ( Un taxi mauve / dt. Irish Intermezzo ) - Director: Yves Boisset
• 1979: Le jeune homme vert - Director: Roger Pigaut , TV miniseries
• 1983: Les poneys sauvages - Director: Robert Mazoyer , TV miniseries
• 2008: Un souvenir - Director: Jacques Renard , TV film

Web links

• Literature by and about Michel Déon in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michel Déon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
• Michel Déon in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)