Hector Bianciotti

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1930|03|18|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Córdoba Province, Argentina

| death_date = {{death date and age|2012|06|12|1930|03|18|df=yes}}

| death_place = Paris, France

| nationality = Argentine
French

| known for = Member of the Académie Française

| occupation = Novelist • Journalist

| domestic_partner = Angelo Rinaldi

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Hector Bianciotti ({{IPA|fr|ɛktɔʁ bjɑ̃ʃɔti}}; 18 March 1930 – 12 June 2012){{cite web|url=http://www.clarin.com/sociedad/libros/Fallecio-escritor-argentino-Hector-Bianciotti_0_717528428.html |title=Falleció el escritor argentino Héctor Bianciotti |date=12 June 2012 |language=ES|publisher=Clarin.com |access-date=2012-06-13}} was an Argentine-born French author and member of the Académie Française.{{cite web|url=http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/base/academiciens/fiche.asp?param=689 |title=Hector Bianciotti |publisher=Academie-francaise |access-date=2012-06-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527160314/http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/base/academiciens/fiche.asp?param=689 |archive-date=2012-05-27 }}

Biography

Born Héctor Bianciotti ({{IPA|es|ˈeɣtoɾ βjanˈtʃoti}}, {{IPA|it|bjanˈtʃɔtti|lang}}) in Calchín Oeste in Córdoba Province, Argentina, Bianciotti's parents were immigrants from Piedmont, who communicated among themselves in the language of that region but who forbade its use with their son. Instead, they spoke Spanish to him. Bianciotti began his study of French in 1945. He arrived in France in 1961 and completed his French naturalization in 1981. In 1982, he stopped writing in any language but French, his favourite.

Bianciotti was elected to the Académie Française on 18 January 1996 to Seat 2, succeeding André Frossard.

He died in Paris on 12 June 2012 at the age of 82.{{Cite web|url=https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/18/108/44791/Books/World/French-writer-Hector-Bianciotti-dies.aspx|title=French writer Hector Bianciotti dies - World - Books|website=Ahram Online}}

Honours and awards

Officer of the Légion d'honneur (Legion of Honour)
Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite (National Order of Merit)
Prix Femina (1985) for Sans la miséricorde du Christ

Bibliography

1967: Les Déserts dorés: (Denoël)
1969: Celle qui voyage la nuit: (Denoël)
1970: Les Autres, un soir d’été: (Gallimard)
1972: Ce moment qui s’achève: (Denoël)
1977: Le Traité des saisons: (Gallimard)
1982: L’Amour n’est pas aimé: (Gallimard)
1985: Sans la miséricorde du Christ: (Gallimard)
1988: Seules les larmes seront comptées.: (Gallimard)
1992: Ce que la nuit raconte au jour (What the Night Tells the Day) : (Grasset) {{ISBN|1565842405}}
1995: Le Pas si lent de l’amour: (Grasset)
1999: Comme la trace de l’oiseau dans l’air: (Grasset)
2001: Une passion en toutes lettres: (Gallimard)
2003: La nostalgie de la maison de Dieu: (Gallimard)