Frédéric Vitoux
Frédéric Louis Jean Vitoux (fʁedeʁik vitu; born 19 August 1944) is a French writer and journalist. He is known as a novelist, biographer and literary columnist. His father was also a journalist.
Frédéric Vitoux
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- Name
- Frédéric Vitoux
- Birth Name
- Frédéric Louis Jean Vitoux
- Born
- 19 August 1944
- Birthplace
- Vitry-aux-Loges, France
- Education
- Lycée Charlemagne
- Occupation
- Writer Journalist
- Known for
- Member of the Académie Française (2001present)
- Full name
- Frédéric Louis Jean Vitoux.
- Nationality
- France.
- Honours
- Officer of Arts and Letters, prize Maillé Latour Landry, Prix Biguet, Prix de la critique, bourse Goncourt de la biographie and Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud.
- Languages
- French.
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Frédéric Louis Jean Vitoux (fʁedeʁik vitu; born 19 August 1944) is a French writer and journalist. He is known as a novelist, biographer and literary columnist. His father was also a journalist.
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Biography
Vitoux was elected to the Académie Française in 2001. In 1994 he won the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for La Comédie de Terracina. In 2010, he won the Édouard Drumont literary prize for his novel Grand Hôtel Nelson.
Frédéric Vitoux studied at Lycée Charlemagne, École Massillon and Paris 8 University. The recorded working language is French. Positions recorded include president and member of the Académie française. Works named in the authority record are La Comédie de Terracina. Distinctions recorded are Officer of Arts and Letters, prize Maillé Latour Landry, Prix Biguet and Prix de la critique.
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• Name — Frédéric Vitoux • Birth Name — Frédéric Louis Jean Vitoux • Born — 19 August 1944 • Birthplace — Vitry-aux-Loges, France • Education — Lycée Charlemagne • Occupation — Writer Journalist • Known for — Member of the Académie Française (2001present)
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Life and career
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1944
Frédéric Vitoux born at Vitry-aux-Loges.
1988
La vie de Céline / Frédéric Vitoux. is dated [1988] and held by Wellcome Collection.
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scholarly publication
- L’ours et le philosophe by Frédéric Vitoux, The French Review, 2022
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2022
- Les désengagés par Frédéric Vitoux, The French Review, 2015
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2015
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1227331: Frédéric Vitoux
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- 1.Frédéric Vitoux. Baby-boomer ou baby-boomé Académie française. academie-francaise.fr. 2021-01-07.
- 2.Michel Déon. Réponse au discours de réception de M. Frédéric Vitoux Académie française. academie-francaise.fr. 2003-03-27.
- 3.Louis-Ferdinand Céline : misère et parole : Voyage au bout de la nuit et Mort à crédit. sudoc.fr.
- 4.Philippe Baverel. Paris : trois peupliers de l’île Saint-Louis vont être abattus - Le Parisien. leparisien.fr. 2018-07-13.
- 5.https://www.academie-francaise.fr/le-dictionnaire/commission-du-dictionnaire.
- 6.Nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres – été 2021. culture.gouv.fr. 2021-12-13.
- 7.Décret du 31 décembre 2004 portant promotion et nomination . PREX0407928D.
- 8.Décret du 12 juillet 2013 portant promotion et nomination . PREX1316852D.
- 9.Ordonnance Souveraine n° 5.048 du 18 novembre 2014 portant promotions ou nominations dans l’Ordre du Mérite Culturel. Journal de Monaco.
- 10.Raphaël Brun. Ordre du mérite culturel : L’incertitude peut aussi libérer l’art, la créativité, l’imagination. Monaco Hebdo. 2020-12-03.
- 11.Frédéric Vitoux. academie-francaise.fr.
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L’ours et le philosophe by Frédéric Vitoux, The French Review, 2022Crossref registry
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Les désengagés par Frédéric Vitoux, The French Review, 2015Crossref registry
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