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Frédérick Tristan

ふれでりっく・とりすたん

Furēderikku Torisutan

Aliases: Jean-Paul Frédéric Tristan Baron

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1931-06-11 （Sedan, Ardennes, France）
Died
2022-03-02 （Dreux, France） age 90
Nationality
France
Languages
French
Residence History
France → Laos → North Vietnam → South Vietnam → China

Career

Occupations
novelist, poet, essayist, professor
Active Years
1951-2022
Affiliations
ICART (Paris)
Influenced By
German Romanticism, Gothic novel, Surrealism
Influenced
Hubert Haddad, Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud

Awards

Prix Goncourt
1983
Work: Les Égarés
Organization: Académie Goncourt
Result: winner
Grand Prize for lifetime achievement
2000
Organization: Société des gens de lettres
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Les Égarés

1983 novel

Details unknown

soulfateworld of dreams

Bibliography

  • Les Égarés
  • Naissance d'un spectre
  • Le Singe égal du ciel
  • La Geste serpentine
  • Balthasar Kober
  • Stéphanie Phanistée
  • Dieu
  • l'Univers et Madame Berthe
  • Les Obsèques prodigieuses d'Abraham Radjec
  • Tao le haut voyage
  • L'Énigme du Vatican
  • Monsieur l'Enfant et le cercle des bavards
  • Dernières nouvelles de l'Au-delà
  • Le Chaudron chinois
  • Christos, enquête sur l'impossible
  • L'Infini singulier

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Romanticfantasticmystical
Recurring Motifs
soulfatedreamsmythinvisible realms

Legacy

Winner of the 1983 Prix Goncourt. Known as a French novelist and poet, active in fantastic literature. All archives preserved at IMEC.

Archives

  • IMEC (Institut mémoires de l'édition contemporaine)

Trivia

  • Sent on missions to Laos, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and China (1964–1986).
  • Married to Marie-France Tristan, specialist on poet Giambattista Marino.