Jean Giono
French writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jean Giono was a French writer who wrote works of fiction mostly set in the Provence region of France. First period Jean Giono was born to a family of modest means, his father a cobbler of Piedmontese descent and his mother a laundry woman. He spent the majority of his life in Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Forced by family needs to leave school at the age of sixteen and get a job in a bank, he nevertheless continued to read voraciously, in particular the great classic works of literature including the Bible, Homer's Iliad, the works of Virgil, and the Tragiques of Agrippa d'Aubigné. He continued to work at the bank until he was called up for military service at the outbreak of World War I. He took part in the Battle of Verdun. The horrors he experienced on the front lines turned him into an ardent and lifelong pacifist. In 1919, he returned to the bank, and a year later, married a childhood friend with whom he had two children. Following the success of his first published novel, Colline , he left the bank in 1930 to devote himself to writing on a full-time basis.
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What Are Jean Giono's Academic Contributions?
Jean Giono has made the following academic contributions:
- Un roi sans divertissement
- Two Riders of the Storm
- To The Slaughterhouse
- The Straw Man
- The Song of the World
- The Solitude of Compassion
- The Man Who Planted Trees
- The Malediction
- The Horseman on the Roof
- Second Harvest
- Pour saluer Melville
- Naissance de l'Odyssée
- Mort d'un personnage
- Lovers Are Never Losers
- Les Vraies Richesses
- Joy of Man's Desiring
- Colline
- Blue boy
- Batailles dans la montagne
- Angelo
