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1931 Briton Aldous Huxley writes Brave
New World in Sanary-sur-Mer World in Sanary-sur-Mer World (see p116),
the setting for Eyeless in Gaza (1936). Marcel
Pagnol
1974 Death of film
director and writer
Marcel Pagnol, whose
Marseille Trilogy
1933 Thomas Mann, who wrote Death explored his Provençal
in Venice (1913), flees Germany for childhood.
Sanary (see p116) with his two sons 1980 British actor Dirk
and his brother Heinrich.
Bogarde, having moved to
Provence in the early 1970s,
publishes his first novel,
A Gentle Occupation.
Lawrence
Durrell
1985 The last volume
of Briton Lawrence
Durrell’s Avignon
Quintet is published.uintet is published.uintet
Q Q
St-Exupéry’s poignant fable,
Le Petit Prince
1944 Antoine de St-Exupéry, aviator and 1989 Briton Peter Mayle’s book A
author of Vol de Nuit (1931) and Vol de Nuit (1931) and Vol de Nuit Le Petit Year in Provence generates interest
Prince (1943), goes missing. His last flight in the Luberon.
passed his sister’s house at Agay.
1930 1945 1960 1975 1990 2005
1930 1945 1960 1975 1990 2005

1978 Marseille-born
Sébastien Japrisot publishes
the award-winning L’Eté
Meurtrier, set in a trier, set in a trier
Meur Le Clézio
Meur
Provençal village.
1954 Françoise Sagan,
aged 18, writes Bonjour
Tristesse (1954) about the
Esterel coast.
1994 Jean-Marie Gustave Le
Clézio (born 1940 in Nice) is
voted Best Living French Writer
Albert by the readers of Lire magazine.
Camus
1993 Briton Anthony Burgess,
the author of A Clockwork Orange
(1962), writes his final work, Dead
Man in Deptford, in Monaco.
1957 Albert Camus buys
a house in Lourmarin (see
p175), where he writes an
autobiographical novel, 1985 Patrick Süskind’s novel Perfume, in
not published until 1994. which much of the action takes place
in Grasse, is published.
The
Fitzgeralds Graham
Greene
1934 American author F Scott Fitzgerald’s South of
France-based Tender is the Night is published. Scott and Tender is the Night is published. Scott and Tender is the Night 1982 Britain’s Graham
his wife Zelda stay in a villa at Juan-Les-Pins in 1926. Greene writes
J’Accuse – The Dark
Side of Nice.