Jean Giono (1895–1970)
Author of The Man Who Planted Trees
About the Author
Jean Giono was born in France on March 30, 1985. He was an author about whom Germaine Bree and M. Guiton have written, "When Giono's first novel, Colline (Hill of Destiny) appeared in 1929, it struck a fresh, new note. . . . After Proust and Gide, Duhamel and Romains, Cocteau and Giraudoux, what show more could be more restful than a world of wind and sun and simple men who apparently had never heard of psychological analysis, never confronted any social problems, never read any books. . ." (An Age of Fiction). Raised by his shoemaker father in a small town in the south of France, Giono's fiction has its roots in the peasant life of Provence. Horrified by his experiences in World War I, Giono returned to the world of his youth, which became the world of his imagination. After the shock of World War II, his novels seemed to gain in stature. One of his best is Horseman on the Roof (1951), his chronicle of the great cholera epidemic of 1838. Giono was honoured with the Prince Rainier of Monaco literary prize in 1953, awarded for his lifetime achievements, was elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1954, and became a member of the Conseil Littéraire of Monaco in 1963. Giono died of a heart attack in 1970. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Jean Giono
Un roi sans divertissement et autres romans (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade) (French Edition) (2020) 6 copies
Homenaje a Melville / Tribute to Melville (El Arco De Ulises / the Arch of Ulysses) (Spanish Edition) (2009) 5 copies
Külajutud 3 copies
Albin 2 copies
Le Bal 2 copies
JEAN LE BLEU SUIVI DE MORT D'UN PERSONNAGE.ILLUSTRATIONS DE GASTON BARRET ET BARBARA TARTAKOWA. (1969) 2 copies
Fiche de lecture L'Homme qui plantait des arbres de Jean Giono (Analyse littéraire de référence et résumé complet) (2019) 1 copy
Les immortels chefs-d'oeuvre - Un de Baumugnes, suivi de Les vraies Richesses - Tome 4 (1973) — Author — 1 copy
From Little Acorns 1 copy
Retoño 1 copy
Tepe 1 copy
A la poursuite du livre rêvé par Jean Giono et Maximilien Vox: Dialogues typographiques (2021) 1 copy
Le bonheur fou, Tome II 1 copy
Taube Blüten 1 copy
Le bonheur fou, Tome I 1 copy
Viaggio in Italia 1 copy
Člověk z hor 1 copy
Země zpívá 1 copy
Un roi sans divertisement 1 copy
LA MISSION 1 copy
Selections 1 copy
Les immortels chefs-d'oeuvre - Jean le bleu suivi de mort d' un personnage - Tome 5 (1968) — Author — 1 copy
Le Poète de la famille 1 copy
Genvundet jord 1 copy
Turma 1 copy
Revue Giono nº 11 - 2018 1 copy
Associated Works
Lebensgut — Ein deutsches Lesebuch für Mädchen — 5. Teil (9. Schuljahr) — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1895-03-30
- Date of death
- 1970-10-08
- Burial location
- Manosque, France
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- France
- Country (for map)
- França
- Birthplace
- Manosque, France
- Place of death
- Manosque, France
- Cause of death
- Naturelle (Crise cardiaque)
- Places of residence
- Manosque, France (birth|death)
- Education
- Autodidacte
Collège de Manosque - Occupations
- novelist
poet
essayist
writer (short stories)
playwright - Relationships
- Fioro, Serge (Cousin)
- Organizations
- Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival (1966)
Académie Goncourt
Conseil Littéraire of Monaco
French Army (WWI) - Awards and honors
- Prince Rainier of Monaco literary prize (1953 ∙ for lifetime achievement)
- Short biography
- He was born and lived for many years in Manosque, Haute Provence. After finishing his studies at the local high school, he worked as a bank employee until World War I, during which he served as a soldier. In 1919, he returned to the bank and a year later, married a childhood friend with whom he had two children. He left the bank in 1930 to dedicate himself to writing on a full-time basis, after the success of his first novel, Colline.
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El Hombre que plantaba árboles by Jean Giono
Un relato inspirador y motivador
set aside for Advent reading - will finish in 2024
make note of reference to the 'beech' aka Haya - first introduced p 7 and referenced again end of story - and place in Arbustos - which I lugged home from Spain
make note of reference to the 'beech' aka Haya - first introduced p 7 and referenced again end of story - and place in Arbustos - which I lugged home from Spain
Less than entirely pleased; one of my favorite authors, this is largely fictionalized autobiography. I don’t know…I just somehow never quite connected with it though it certainly has its moments and some wonderful passage and, as always, his language is a pleasure.
One of my favorite authors and, while this is good (and often considered his best work), it didn't thrill me. It’s about the horseman making his way back from France to Italy during a cholera pandemic in the 1830s. Some of the descriptions of cholera (especially of people dying from it) are absolutely horrifying...and what I thought would be an episode or two in the beginning turned out to be much of the book. He is a wonderful, thoughtful, evocative writer but I don't put this up there at the top of his large oeuvre.… (more)
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