EMINENT FRENCH WRITER TROYAT DIES
BBC News, UK
March 5 2007
Henri Troyat wrote more than 100 books and won numerous prizes The
death has been announced in Paris of one of the greatest figures in
modern French literature, the writer Henri Troyat, at the age of 95.
He was the author of more than 100 works of fiction, history and
biography – the most recent published a year ago.
Mr Troyat was born into an Armenian family in Moscow, but his
businessman father fled the Russian revolution, and the family
eventually settled in Paris.
He wrote in French but many of his works dealt with Russian subjects.
He won his first literary award at the age of 24, le prix du roman
populaire. At the age of 27 he was awarded the prestigious Prix
Goncourt.
His biographies of writers and monarchs included Anton Chekov,
Catherine the Great, Rasputin, Ivan the Terrible and Leo Tolstoy.
At the time of his death, announced in the French newspaper Le Figaro
on Monday, he was the dean of the Academie Francaise.
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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
