Albert Cossery

Albert Cossery was born in Cairo on 3 November 1913, into a well-off family of landowners of Syrian origin, of the Greek Orthodox faith. A pupil at the French schools of Cairo, he began studies in Paris that he did not complete, then settled there in 1945, at the Hôtel La Louisiane in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where he lived until his death. He published eight books over six decades and in 1990 received the Académie française's Grand Prix de la Francophonie. He died in Paris on 22 June 2008.

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• NovelLaziness in the Fertile ValleyLes Fainéants dans la vallée fertileAlbert Cossery · 1948Literature