Robert Merle
Robert Merle (August 28 1908 - March 28 2004) was a French novelist.
Born in Tebessa in French occupied Algeria, he moved to France in 1918. Merle wrote in many styles and won the Prix Goncourt for his novel Week-end à Zuydcoote. He has also written a 12 book series of historical novels, Fortune de France. Recreating 16th and 17th century France through the eyes of a fictitious Protestant doctor turned spy, he went so far as to write it in the period's French making it virtually untranslatable.
He died of a heart attack in his house near Paris.
Bibliography
- Week-end à Zuydcoote (1949)
- La mort est mon métier (1952)
- L'île (1962)
- Un animal doué de la raison (1967)
- Malevil (1972)
- Les hommes protégés (1974)
- Le Soleil ne se lève pas pour nous (1987)
- Le propre de l'homme (1989)
Fortune de France series (1978-2002)
- Fortune de France
- En nos vertes années
- Paris ma bonne ville
- Le prince que voilà
- La violente amour
- La Pique du jour
- La volte des vertugadins
- L?Enfant-Roi
- Les Roses de la vie
- Le Lys et la Pourpre
- La Gloire et les Périls
- Complots et Cabales
