Hector Bianciotti Explained

Hector Bianciotti
Birth Date:18 March 1930
Birth Place:Córdoba Province, Argentina
Death Place:Paris, France
Nationality:Argentine
French
Known For:Member of the Académie française
Occupation:Novelist
Journalist

Hector Bianciotti (in French pronounced as /ɛktɔʁ bjɑ̃ʃɔti/; 18 March 1930 – 12 June 2012)[1] was an Argentine-born French author and member of the Académie française.[2]

Biography

Born Héctor Bianciotti (pronounced as /es/, pronounced as /it/) in Calchín Oeste in Córdoba Province, Argentina, Bianciotti's parents were immigrants from Piedmont, who communicated among themselves in the language of that region but who forbade its use with their son. Instead, they spoke Spanish to him. Bianciotti began his study of French in 1945. He arrived in France in 1961 and completed his French naturalization in 1981. In 1982, he stopped writing in any language but French, his favourite.

Bianciotti was elected to the Académie française on 18 January 1996 to Seat 2, succeeding André Frossard.

He died on 12 June 2012.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Falleció el escritor argentino Héctor Bianciotti . 12 June 2012 . Clarin.com . 2012-06-13.
  2. Web site: Hector Bianciotti . Academie-francaise . 2012-06-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120527160314/http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/base/academiciens/fiche.asp?param=689 . 2012-05-27 .
  3. Web site: French writer Hector Bianciotti dies - World - Books. Ahram Online.