Michel Breitman

{{Short description|French writer and translator (1926–2009)}}

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Michel Breitman (10 August 1926 – 16 May 2009) was a French writer and translator. He won the 1986 edition of the Prix des Deux Magots with his novel Le Témoin de poussière.

A translator of Dino Buzzati, Breitman also published numerous novels, short stories and radio plays.

He wrote his first novel, Vétrino ou le bonhomme de verre directly in Italian, and upon returning to France, he wrote all his other works in his native tongue.

In 1964, he published the novella Sébastien.{{cite journal |last1=Rose |first1=Marilyn Gaddis |title=Review: Sébastien |journal=Books Abroad |date=1966 |volume=40 |issue=1 |page=49 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40120310}}

The film Fortunat, featuring Bourvil and Michèle Morgan, was an adaptation of his eponymous novel published in 1955.