Jean Giono is a novelist and essayist. His novel The Man Who Laughs (1928) is his most famous. He wrote forty-four novels, which have been translated into twenty languages. He was awarded the Prix Goncourt for best contemporary novelist in 1956
In 1963 he was given the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, France's highest cultural distinction. In 1994, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.Jean Giono
I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.Jean Giono
Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.Jean Giono
