Michel del Castillo

Michel Janicot del Castillo (2 August 1933 – 17 December 2024) was a Spanish-born French writer. He was born in Madrid, Spain. His books won many literary prizes, such as Prix Chateaubriand for Le Silence des Pierres (1975); Renaudot for La nuit du Décret (1981); Prix Maurice Genevoix for Rue des Archives (1994); Prix de l’Écrit Intime for Mon frère l’Idiot (1995); and Prix Femina essai for Colette, une Certaine France (1999).

Castillo was kept in a concentration camp, Rieucros, in Mende, Lozère with his mother during the Second World War.Biography of Michel Del Castillo on Britannica.com. In 1997, he became a member of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique.(fr) Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique, Michel Del Castillo .

Castillo died on 17 December 2024, at the age of 91.

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