Henri Troyat

Lev Tarassov, who took the name Henri Troyat, was born in Moscow on 1 November 1911, into a well-off family of Armenian origin. The revolution forced his family to flee Russia, and they reached Paris in 1920. Having become French, he received the Prix Goncourt in 1938, at the age of twenty-seven. The author of more than a hundred books, novels and biographies, he was elected to the Académie française in 1959 and remained a member until his death. He died in Paris on 2 March 2007.

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• NovelThe MountainLa Neige en deuilHenri Troyat · 1952Literature