Frank Bernard1929

French journalist and writer. At the age of 20, he met Jean-Paul Sartre who entrusted him on a trial basis with a column in his magazine, Les Temps Modernes. He remained a periodic contributor, but after publication of his novel Les Rats (1953), he fell out with the magazines management. During 1952-1953, he was in charge of the literary column in lObservateur, as a substitute for Maurice Nadeau. He also contributed to le Monde, the Cahier des saisons, the Nouveau Candide, and lActualité. He won the Prix des Deux Magots in 1971 for "un Siècle débordé", and the Roger Nimier Prize in 1981 for "Solde". That year he began a literary column in the daily Le Matin de Paris before rejoining Le Monde in 1985 and then Le Nouvel Observateur in 1989. Frank died of a heart attack on 3 November 2006, while dining in a restaurant in Paris. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less