Michel Host


Michel Host was a French writer.

Biography

He was born in Veurne, West Flanders, Belgium. He taught school, then high school.
He lived in Paris, where he taught language and literature of the Spanish Golden Age in CNED after Hispanic studies at the Sorbonne.
He was a columnist for the literary journal Revue des deux mondes and Regards.
Co-founder of the magazine L’Art du bref in 1995,
he received the Prix Goncourt in 1986 for his second novel, Valet de nuit.
Host died on 6 June 2021, from COVID-19 in Paris during the COVID-19 pandemic in France.

Awards

  • 2003 Grand Prize of the news of the S.G.D.L.
  • 1996 Book Prize in Picardy
  • 1986 Prix Goncourt