Novelist. Son of a colonel from the Landes, Pierre Benoit lived part of his childhood in Algeria and Tunisia, where his father was stationed. It was there that he went to high school and began his right. After his military service, he went on to study letters and history at Montpellier. He had a degree in literature and failed in history. In 1910 he became a civil servant, but his real calling was literature, in which he began to publish the book before war of poems and a collection of verses (Diadumene). In 1918, he published his first novel Konigsmark (the latter will have the privilege, years later, to inaugurate the collection of the Livre de Poche at Hachette, which he still bears the number 1). His second novel, Atlantis, full of his Tunisian and Algerian memories, was published the following year and won the grand prize of the French Academy novel. A fertile novelist, Pierre Benoit subsequently donated nearly one book a year. Adventure novels with a thousand enigmas, the stories of Pierre Benoît often celebrate the woman, in the guise of heroines whose name always begins with the letter A. By another coquetry of author, the writer also wanted to give to all his novels the same number of pages. He was elected to the French Academy in 1931. In 1959, Pierre Benoit was to resign from the Academy to protest against General de Gaulle's veto for the election of Paul Morand.
Novelist. Son of a colonel from the Landes, Pierre Benoit lived part of his childhood in Algeria and Tunisia, where his father was stationed. It was there that he went to high school and began his right. After his military service, he went on to study letters and history at Montpellier. He had a degree in literature and failed in history. In 1910 he became a civil servant, but his real calling was literature, in which he began to publish the book before war of poems and a collection of verses (Diadumene). In 1918, he published his first novel Konigsmark (the latter will have the privilege, years later, to inaugurate the collection of the Livre de Poche at Hachette, which he still bears the number 1). His second novel, Atlantis, full of his Tunisian and Algerian memories, was published the following year and won the grand prize of the French Academy novel. A fertile novelist, Pierre Benoit subsequently donated nearly one book a year. Adventure novels with a thousand enigmas, the stories of Pierre Benoît often celebrate the woman, in the guise of heroines whose name always begins with the letter A. By another coquetry of author, the writer also wanted to give to all his novels the same number of pages. He was elected to the French Academy in 1931. In 1959, Pierre Benoit was to resign from the Academy to protest against General de Gaulle's veto for the election of Paul Morand.
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