Bertrand Visage | |
Birth Place: | Chateaudrun, Eure et Loir, France |
Occupation: | Academic and author |
Language: | French |
Notableworks: | Au pays des nains Tous les soleils Angelica |
Awards: | Fénéon Prize Prix Femina Albert Camus Prize |
Bertrand Visage is a French academic and writer.
He was a Professor of Literature in France for 3 years before moving to Italy to teach French literature for 2 years at the University of Catania in Sicily and afterwards at Naples Eastern University. Following a 2 years residence at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici, he returned to Palermo, Sicily as a cultural attaché at the French Embassy. From 1987 to 1992 he taught French literature at the University of Rome and at the University of Naples.[1]
His novels Tous les soleils and Angelica were both set in Sicily. Tous les soleils won the Prix Femina in 1984[2] and Angelica the Albert Camus Prize in 1988.
In 1983 he had won the Fénéon Prize for his earlier novel Au pays des nains