Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet was born in Brest on 18 August 1922, into a family of engineers. A agronomist by training, he worked overseas, notably in Morocco and the West Indies, before giving up that profession to write. Literary adviser to the Éditions de Minuit from 1955 to 1985, he was one of the figures of the Nouveau Roman. He also wrote for the cinema and directed several films himself. Elected to the Académie française on 25 March 2004, he died in Caen on 18 February 2008.

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