Patrick Grainville

Patrick Grainville (born 1 June 1947 Villers-sur-Mer (Calvados) is a French novelist.

He spent his childhood in Villerville, a small town east of Deauville. An Associate Professor of Letters, he received the Prix Goncourt in 1976, 29 years old, for his fourth novel, Les Flamboyants, (The Flasher).[1]

He has written extensively on Africa, where he undertook a cooperative mission.[2] He is professor of French at the Lycée Evariste Galois in Sartrouville.

Patrick Grainville is also literary critic for Le Figaro.

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