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Line 1: {{Short description\|French writer (1924–2016)}} {{more footnotes\|date=August 2017}} {{Use dmy dates\|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox writer \| name = Michel Tournier Line 5 ⟶ 7: \| honorific_prefix = \| honorific_suffix = \| image = Michel ~~Tournier~~-tournier.jpg\| \| ~~image_size~~ image_upright = ~~250~~ ~~\| image_upright = 250~~ \| alt = \| caption = Line 20 ⟶ 21: \| resting_place = \| occupation = \| ~~language~~ education = ~~French~~ \| alma_mater = [[University of Paris\|Sorbonne]]▼ ~~\| nationality = French~~ ~~\| citizenship =~~ ~~\| education =~~ ▲\| alma_mater = Sorbonne \| period = \| genre = <!-- or: \| genres = --> Line 44 ⟶ 42: {{French literature sidebar}} '''Michel Tournier''' ({{IPA-fr\|tuʁnje\|lang}}; 19 December 1924 − 18 January 2016) was a French writer. He won awards such as the ''[[Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française]]'' in 1967 for ''[[Friday, or, The Other Island]]'' and the [[Prix Goncourt]] for ''[[The Erl-King (novel)\|The Erl-King]]'' in 1970. His inspirations included traditional German culture, [[Catholicism]] and the philosophies of [[Gaston Bachelard]]. He resided in [[Choisel]] and was a member of the [[Académie Goncourt]]. His autobiography has been translated and published as ''The Wind Spirit'' (Beacon Press, 1988). He was on occasion in contention for the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.dn.se/arkiv/kultur/nobelpristagaren-klar-redan-i-morgon\|title=Nobelpristagaren klar redan i morgon\|work=DN.SE\|date=29 September 1999 \|accessdate=19 January 2016}}</ref> ==Biography== Line 53 ⟶ 51: He co-founded in 1970, with the Arles photographer [[Lucien Clergue]] and the historian [[Jean-Maurice Rouquette]], the [[Rencontres d'Arles]]. At the same time he produced for television some fifty issues of the monthly program ''Chambre noire'', devoted to photography interviewing a photographer for each program. Tournier died on 18 January 2016 in [[Choisel]], France at the age of 91.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2016/01/18/97001-20160118FILWWW00360-l-ecrivain-michel-tournier-est-mort.php\|title=L'écrivain Michel Tournier est mort à l'âge de 91 ans\|date=18 January 2016 \|publisher=Le Figaro.fr\|accessdate=18 January 2016\|language=fr}}</ref> ~~foi um ganda menelzao~~ ==Selected works== * ''[[Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique]]'' (''[[Friday, or, The Other Island\|Friday]]'') (1967) - [[Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française]] * ''[[Le Roi des aulnes]]'' (1970) (''[[The Erl-King]]'' translated 1972 by [[Barbara Bray]], a.k.a. ''The Ogre'') :** ''Le Roi des aulnes'' was made into a 1996 movie ''Der Unhold'' ([[The Ogre (1996 film)\|''The Ogre'']]) directed by [[Volker Schlöndorff]] and has also been adapted for the stage by Tom Perrin in 2002. * ''Les Météores'' (''[[Gemini (novel)\|Gemini]]'', 1975) * ''Le Vent Paraclet'' (''[[The Wind Spirit]]'', 1977) * ''Vendredi ou la Vie sauvage'' (''Friday and Robinson'', ~~1977~~1972) * ''Le Coq de bruyère'' (''[[The Fetishist and Other Stories]]'', 1978) * ''Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar'' (''[[The Four Wise Men]]'', 1980) * ''Le Vol du vampire'' (1981) * ''Gilles et Jeanne'' (''[[Gilles and Jeanne]]'', 1983) * ''La Goutte d'or'' (''[[The Golden Droplet]]'', 1986) * ''Petites Proses'' (1986) * ''Le ~~Medianoche~~Médianoche amoureux'' (''[[The Midnight Love Feast]]'', 1989) * ''La Couleuvrine'' (1994) * ''Le Miroir des idées'' (''[[The Mirror of Ideas]]'', 1994) * ''Eléazar ou la Source et le Buisson'' (''[[Eleazar, Exodus to the West]]'', 1996) * ''Journal extime'' (2002) Line 81 ⟶ 79: == Further reading == * {{cite web \|last=Montiel \|first=Luis \|year=2003 \|title=Más acá del bien en el mal. Topografía de la moral en Nietzsche, Mann y Tournier \|url=http://eprints.ucm.es/4922/1/MAS_ACA_DEL_BIEN_EN_EL_MAL.pdf }} - [https://docta.ucm.es/rest/api/core/bitstreams/2f4a93fc-0896-4aa1-8e8e-e0acce788fcf/content PDF] * Christopher Anderson. ''Michel Tournier's Children: Myth, Intertext, Initiation''. Peter Lang. 1998. 145pp. * Walter Redfern: ''[[Michel Tournier: Le Coq De Bruyere~~. Michel Tournier~~]]''. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1996. 138pp. * William Cloonan. ''Michel Tournier''. Twayne. 1985. 110pp. * Colin Davis. ''Michel Tournier: Philosophy and Fiction''. Clarendon Press. 1988. 222pp. Line 95 ⟶ 93: * Jane Kathryn Stribling. ''Plenitude Restored, Or, Trompe L'oeil: The Problématic of Fragmentation and Integration in the Prose Works of Pierre Jean Jouve and Michel Tournier''. Peter Lang. 1998. 339pp. * Michel Tournier. ''The Wind Spirit: An Autobiography''. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Beacon Press. 1988. 259pp. * [[Michael Worton]] (editor). ''[[Michel Tournier (Worton book)\|Michel Tournier]]''. Longman. 1995. 220pp.▼ * Vladimir Tumanov. [https://owl.uwo.ca/access/content/group/d9c3b137-1d5d-4026-9794-2079b0d9f6a8/John%20and%20Abel.pdf “John and Abel in Michel Tournier’s ''Le Roi des Aulnes''.”] ''Romanic Review'' 90 (3) 1999: 417-434. ▲* Michael Worton (editor). ''Michel Tournier''. Longman. 1995. 220pp. * Zhaoding Yang. ''Michel Tournier: La Conquête de la Grande Santé''. Peter Lang. 2001. 175pp. Language: French. * {{cite web\|last=Coward\|first=David\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/21/michel-tournier\|title=Michel Tournier obituary\|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]\|place=[[London]]\|date=2016-01-21}} * {{cite web\|last=Smith\|first=Robyn\|url=https://literaryreview.co.uk/robin-smyth-interviews-michel-tournier\|title=Interview: Michel Tournier\|magazine=[[Literary Review]]\|place=[[London]]\|date=February 1991}} * {{cite web\|last=Maclean\|first=Mairi\|url=https://purehost.bath.ac.uk:443/ws/files/146609145/Interview_with_Tournier_FMLS_final_version.pdf\|title=Michel Tournier, Past and Present: An Interview With the Author\|journal=[[Forum for Modern Language Studies]]\|year=2004\|volume=40\|issue=3\|pages=314-328\|doi=10.1093/fmls/40.3.314}} == External links== Line 103: * {{IMDb name\|nm0869675}} * {{Books and Writers \|id=tournier \|name=Michel Tournier}} {{Michel Tournier}} {{Prix Goncourt}} {{Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française}} {{Authority control}} Line 112 ⟶ 113: [[Category:20th-century French novelists]] [[Category:21st-century French novelists]] [[Category:French Roman Catholic writers]] [[Category:Writers from Paris]] [[Category:Christian novelists]] [[Category:Prix Goncourt winners]] [[Category:University of Paris alumni]]