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This writer was born in Nice in 1940 in a family from Britany, but of which several generations had lived in Mauritius. During the war, he was a refugee in Roquebillère with his mother and his brother. His father, an Englishman, was a surgeon in the army and couldn't come back to France.
He lived place de l'Ile de Beauté, near the port, during his youth.
He travelled to Nigeria in 1948 to visit his father but came back to Nice in 1949. He studied at the Masséna high school in Nice and then in the litterature university in the same city.
He repeatedly expressed mixed feelings about the city where he did not feel home.
He wrote a lot of books, and has a passion for trips which have a major part in his artwork. He got the french literary award Prix Renaudot in 1963 for "Le Procès Verbal", written in Nice the previous year. He later got the Nobel Prize for litterature in 2008.
His books.