Michel Butel
French journalist and novelist (1940–2018)
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Michel Butel (19 September 1940 – 26 July 2018) was a French journalist and novelist.[1] He won the Prix Médicis for L'Autre amour in 1977.[2] He was the founding editor of L'Autre Journal, a political and literary magazine, from 1984 to 1993.[1][3] He was also the founding editor of L'Impossible from 2011 to 2013.[1]
Biography
Michel Butel was born in Tarbes in 1940 to a lawyer mother and a father who went on to found the Social security in France. He left school at the age of 14.
Like his youthful friend Yves Janin, he failed as a teenager at the psycho-pedagogical institute in Saint-Maximin (Oise),[4] then founded a protest and poetic journal, “La Cascade”.[5]
