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Jean Giono
Jean Giono was a French writer who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France.
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culture · French writer (1895–1970) · writer · screenwriter · novelist · poet · translator · film director · playwright · also Jean Giono, Giono
Born 30 March 1895 · Died 9 October 1970 · Q177411
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2026· 2 entries
Le Journal du Dimanche: Jean Giono : mémoire d’un hussard à Manosque
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2025· 1 entry
Le Parisien: « Un geste de justice et de réparation » : la fille de l’écrivain Jean Giono récupère un manuscrit qu’il a écrit en 1939
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2024· 2 entries
Le Figaro: À Manosque, la maison de Jean Giono menace ruine
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Le Figaro: À Manosque, l’appel pour sauver la maison de Jean Giono, tombée en déshérence
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2021· 2 entries
ActuaLitté: Le prix Jean Giono 2021 attribué à Sur les toits, de Frédéric Verger
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Marianne: A l'heure de la COP 26, pourquoi il faut relire "Les Vraies Richesses" de Jean Giono
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2020· 1 entry
America Magazine: Jean Giono’s mirror of the present
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2019· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Books by Jean Giono and Complete Book Reviews
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2001· 1 entry
Is another of the masterpieces of this period
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1970· 1 entry
Died 1970-10-09.
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded for his lifetime achievements, was elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1954, and became a member of the Conseil Littéraire of Monaco in 1963
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1951· 1 entry
And made into a film by Jean-Paul Rappeneau starring Juliette Binoche in 1995
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1947· 1 entry
And made into a successful film for which Giono himself wrote the screenplay, in 1963)
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1945· 1 entry
To write Angelo, metaphorically the laboratory in which he experimented, tested and attempted to integrate his new approach to his work
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1944· 1 entry
When France was liberated, Giono was again accused of collaboration with the Nazis, and was again imprisoned for five months before he was freed without charges ever being made
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1937· 1 entry
Famously asked, "What is the worst that can happen if Germany invades France
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1930· 1 entry
To devote himself to writing on a full-time basis
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1919· 1 entry
Returned to the bank, and a year later, married a childhood friend with whom he had two children
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1895· 1 entry
Born 1895-03-30.
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1832· 1 entry
Is an allegory for the wars that had so deeply affected Giono
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