Michel Butor

Michel Butor was born on 14 September 1926 in Mons-en-Barœul, in the Nord. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, then taught abroad, in Egypt, in Manchester, in Thessaloniki, in Geneva and at American universities. After four novels published in the 1950s, he gave up the novel for forms that belong to no genre: essays, poems, artists' books. In 2013 the Académie française awarded him its grand prix de littérature. He died on 24 August 2016 in Contamine-sur-Arve, in Haute-Savoie.

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• NovelChanging TrackLa ModificationMichel Butor · 1957Literature