- Hector Bianciotti
Hector Bianciotti, born
March 19 ,1930 inArgentina , is a writer and a member of theAcadémie française .His parents were immigrants from
Piedmont , who communicated among themselves in the dialect of that region but who forbade its use with their son. Instead, they spoke Spanish to him. Bianciotti began his study of French in 1945. He arrived in France in 1961 and completed his French naturalization in 1981. In 1982, he stopped writing in any language but French, his favorite.Académie Francaise
Hector Bianciotti was elected to the Académie française on
January 18 ,1996 to Seat 2, succeedingAndré Frossard .Medals and Honors
*Officer of the Légion d'honneur ("Legion of Honor")
*Officer of the Ordre National du Mérite ("National Order of Merit")
*Prix Femina (1985) for "Sans la miséricorde du Christ"Bibliography
* 1967 "Les Déserts dorés" (Denoël)
* 1969 "Celle qui voyage la nuit" (Denoël)
* 1970 "Les Autres, un soir d’été" (Gallimard)
* 1972 "Ce moment qui s’achève" (Denoël)
* 1977 "Le Traité des saisons" (Gallimard)
* 1982 "L’Amour n’est pas aimé" (Gallimard)
* 1985 "Sans la miséricorde du Christ" (Gallimard)
* 1988 "Seules les larmes seront comptées." (Gallimard)
* 1992 "Ce que la nuit raconte au jour" (Grasset) --Translated as "What the Night Tells the Day" ISBN 1565842405
* 1995 "Le Pas si lent de l’amour" (Grasset)
* 1999 "Comme la trace de l’oiseau dans l’air" (Grasset)
* 2001 "Une passion en toutes lettres" (Gallimard)
* 2003 "La nostalgie de la maison de Dieu" (Gallimard)
Sources
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External links
* [http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/index.html L'Académie française]
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