Jean Raspail
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Key facts
- Born
- Jean Paul Raspail , ( 1925-07-05 ) 5 July 1925, Chemillé-sur-Dême , Indre-et-Loire , France
- Died
- 13 June 2020 (2020-06-13) (aged 94), Paris , France
- Resting place
- Montparnasse Cemetery , Paris
- Occupation
- Explorer, novelist, travel writer
- Notable works
- The Camp of the Saints ; Moi, Antoine de Tounens, roi de Patagonie
- Notable awards
- Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française (1981) , Prix Maison de la Presse (1995) , Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française (2003) , Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations (2007) , Prix Combourg-Chateaubriand (2008)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Paul
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Chemillé-sur-Dême
- Place of death
- 16th arrondissement of Paris
- Occupation
- novelist
- Position held
- consul general
- Educated at
- École des Roches
- Languages spoken
- French
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Field of work
- belletristic literature
- Genre
- adventure fiction
- Image
- Jean Raspail - Portrait - 2010 (cropped).jpg
- Residence
- Neuilly-sur-Seine
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- date of birth
- 1925-07-05
- Commons category
- Jean Raspail
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- Raspail
- date of death
- 2020-06-13
- place of burial
- Montparnasse Cemetery
- birth name
- Jean Paul Raspail
- writing language
- French
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- Saint-Aubin
- influenced by
- Marcel Jouhandeau
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Encyclopedic overview
Jean Paul Raspail ( French: [ʒɑ̃ ʁaspaj]; 5 July 1925 – 13 June 2020) was a French explorer, novelist and travel writer. He was a recipient of the prestigious French literary awards Grand Prix du Roman and Grand Prix de littérature by the Académie Française. The French government honoured him in 2003 by appointing him to the Legion of Honour, with the grade of Officer. Although the majority of his books are travelogues or novels about historical figures, exploration and indigenous peoples, internationally, he is best known for his controversial 1973 novel The Camp of the Saints, which is about mass third-world immigration to Europe.
Life and career
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