Bertrand Visage
French academic and writer (born 1952)
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Bertrand Visage (French pronunciation: [bɛʁtʁɑ̃ vizaʒ]) is a French academic and writer.
Tous les soleils
Angelica
Bertrand Visage | |
|---|---|
| Born | 8 March 1952 (age 74) Chateaudrun, Eure et Loir, France |
| Occupation | Academic and author |
| Language | French |
| Notable works | Au pays des nains Tous les soleils Angelica |
| Notable awards | Fénéon Prize Prix Femina Albert Camus Prize |
He was a Professor of Literature in France for 3 years before moving to Italy to teach French literature for 2 years at the University of Catania in Sicily and afterwards at Naples Eastern University. Following a 2 years residence at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici, he returned to Palermo, Sicily as a cultural attaché at the French Embassy. From 1987 to 1992 he taught French literature at the University of Rome and at the University of Naples.[1]
His novels Tous les soleils and Angelica are both set in Sicily. Tous les soleils won the Prix Femina in 1984[2] and Angelica the Albert Camus Prize in 1988.
In 1983 he won the Fénéon Prize for his earlier novel Au pays des nains.
