Hector Bianciotti

Hector Bianciotti (French pronunciation: [ɛktɔʁ bjɑ̃ʃoti]; born 19 March 1930) is an Argentine-born French author and member of the Académie française.

Biography

Born Héctor Bianciotti (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈektor βjanˈtʃoti]) in Calchin Oeste in Córdoba Province (Argentina), Bianciotti's parents were immigrants from Piedmont, who communicated among themselves in the dialect 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 favorite.

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

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This article incorporates information from the revision as of March 11, 2006 of the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.

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