Bertrand Visage Explained

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Les auteurs français contemporains. lalettre.com. 2 February 2015.
  2. Web site: Tous les lauréats du Prix Femina. Femina. 2 February 2011. 3 April 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190403080053/http://www.prix-litteraires.net/femina_liste.php. dead.