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Jean Hougron

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Jean Hougron

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1923-07-01 （Colombelles, Calvados）
Died
2001-05-22 （Paris） age 77
Nationality
France
Languages
French, English, regional languages of Indochina
Residence History
Calvados → Marseille → Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, southern China) → Saigon → Paris

Career

Occupations
novelist, teacher of English and sciences, import-export trading firm employee, US consulate employee, Radio France Asie employee
Active Years
1950-1987
Influenced By
Joseph Conrad

Awards

Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
1953
Work: Mort en fraude
Organization: Académie française
Result: winner
Prix du roman populiste
1965
Work: Histoire de Georges Guersant
Result: winner
Grand Prix de la Science-Fiction
1981
Work: Le Naguen
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Reap the Whirlwind

1950 novel

Novel set in Indochina.

Indochinese atmospherehuman relations

Mort en fraude

1953 novel

Winner of Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.

Indochinalandscapecharacters

I'll Get Back to Kandara

1955 novel

Story about returning to Kandara.

adventureIndochina
Adaptations
  • [film] I'll Get Back to Kandara / Victor Vicas (1956)

Bibliography

  • Tu récolteras la tempête (La Nuit indochinoise, I), Domat, 1950
  • Rage blanche (La Nuit indochinoise, II), Domat, 1951
  • Soleil au ventre (La Nuit indochinoise, III), Domat, 1952
  • Mort en fraude (La Nuit indochinoise, IV), Domat, 1953
  • Les Portes de l'aventure (La Nuit indochinoise, V), Domat, 1954
  • Les Asiates (La Nuit indochinoise, VI), Domat, 1954
  • Je reviendrai à Kandara, Domat, 1955
  • Quatrième étage, in Les Oeuvres libres..., A. Fayard, 1955
  • La Terre du barbare (La Nuit indochinoise, VII), Del Duca, 1958
  • Par qui le scandale, Éditions mondiales, 1960
  • Le Signe du chien, Denoël, coll. "Présence du futur", n°44, 1961
  • Histoire de Georges Guersant, Stock, 1964
  • Les Humiliés, Stock, 1965
  • La Gueule pleine de dents, Plon, 1970
  • L'Homme de proie, Plon, 1974
  • L'Anti-jeu, Plon, 1977
  • Le Naguen, Plon, 1980
  • La Chambre, Hachette, 1982
  • Coup de soleil, Hachette, 1984
  • Beauté chinoise, Hachette, 1987

Adaptations

  • I'll Get Back to Kandara (1956, dir. Victor Vicas)
  • Fugitive in Saigon (1957, dir. Marcel Camus)

Translations of Works

  • Several books translated into English and other languages

Style & Themes

Literary Style
atmospheric studiesclimate and landscape depictionscharacter and human relations focus
Recurring Motifs
Indochinese nightcolonial Asia

Legacy

Famous for novels set in French Indochina, collected in La Nuit Indochinoise series. Called 'the French Joseph Conrad'. Some adapted to films, regularly re-edited.

Trivia

  • Lived and traveled in Indochina from 1947, learning regional languages.
  • Sometimes called 'the French Joseph Conrad'.