Hector Bianciotti, born March 19, 1930 in Argentina, is a writer and a member of the Académie 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, succeeding André 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)
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