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Michel Rio

ミシェル・リオ

Misheru Rio

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1945 (Brittany)
Nationality
France
Languages
French
Residence History
Brittany (birth) → Madagascar (raised) → Paris (currently)

Career

Occupations
writer, novelist, playwright
Active Years
1972-2024

Awards

Prix Médicis
1992
Work: Tlacuilo
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Tlacuilo

1992 novel
man's relationship to natureignoble elements of sexArthurian Cyclesuicide

Bibliography

  • Mélancolie Nord
  • Le Perchoir du perroquet
  • Alizés
  • Les Jungles pensives
  • Archipel
  • Merlin
  • Baleine pied-de-poule
  • Faux-pas
  • Rêve de logique
  • Tlacuilo
  • Le Principe d'incertitude
  • L'Ouroboros
  • Les Polymorphes
  • Les Aventures des Oiseaux-Fruits
  • Manhattan terminus
  • La Statue de la liberté
  • La Mort (une enquête de Francis Malone)
  • Morgane
  • Arthur
  • La Remise au monde
  • Script
  • Transatlantique
  • La Terre Gaste
  • Leçon d'abîme (une enquête de Francis Malone)
  • Sans songer à mal (une enquête de Francis Malone)
  • Merlin, le faiseur de rois
  • Malone, tome 1

Style & Themes

Literary Style
rather short workswell-received by critics
Recurring Motifs
man's relationship to natureignoble elements of sexArthurian Cyclesuicidenature of writing (Jerome Avalon)

Legacy

Well-received by critics and has won several literary awards, but better known overseas (especially in the United States) than in France. Works translated into many languages.