Jean-Marie Laclavetine
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Jean-Marie Laclavetine | |
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 French editor, writer and translator of Italian literature into French | |
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| Period | Contemporary |
| Notable works | Les emmurés |
Jean-Marie Laclavetine is a French editor, writer and translator of Italian literature into French.
Jean-Marie Laclavetine was born in Bordeaux.
At the age of 26 he published his first novel, Les Emmurés, for which he received the literary award Prix Fénéon in 1981.
In 1989 he became a member of the Éditions Gallimard publishing house Comité de Lecture. He translated the Italian authors Alberto Savinio, Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, Leonardo Sciascia, Vitaliano Brancati, and Alberto Moravia into French.
