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A writer is a cottage industry. Some craftsmen make tortoiseshell combs, others make leather wallets. I make Michel Tournier manuscripts.

Michel Tournier

A myth is first of all a multistoreyed structure, each story being built according to an identical plan but at a different level of abstraction... The child's tale that is the myth's ground floor, as it were, is just as essential as its metaphysical summit.

Michel Tournier

Michel Tournier

Michel Tournier

Born: December 19, 1924

Died: January 18, 2016 (aged 91)

Bio: Michel Tournier 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 in 1970.

Known for:

Friday, or, The Other Island (1967)
Vendredi ou la Vie sauvage (1971)
The Erl-King (1970)
Les météores (1975)
Le coq de bruyère (1978)

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