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Jean Giono (1895-1970) was born in Manosque, Provence, the son of an Italian cobbler, and lived there most of his life. He supported his family working as a bank clerk for eighteen years (with an interval serving in the ranks in the First World War) before his first two novels were published, thanks to the generosity of Andre Gide to critical acclaim. He went on to write thirty novels and numerous essays and stories, as well as poetry and plays. In 1953 he was awarded the Prix Monegasque for his collective work. The same year, he made a prescient contribution to the ""ecological"" movement with his novella The Man who Planted Trees. This, and his novel The Horseman on the Roof, which was made into a highly acclaimed film starring Olivier Martinez and Juliette Binoche, are among this author's titles also published by Harvill. Jean Giono married in 1920 and had two daughters.
Giono gives us the world we live in, a world of dream, passion and reality -- Henry Miller There is still dew on this world of Giono's; he looks out on it and records his impressions of it almost as if he were the first man seeing it. The emotions of his people are refreshingly forthright and uncomplicated, and in his pages man stands in his natural relation to the animate and inanimate world about him New York Times Jean Giono is one of the giants of modern French letters. He is the poet of the French countryside and of the French peasant, of man and nature, and the relation of man to nature. His books stand apart; there is nothing else in all French literature quite like them Living Age As with Faulkner, we have blood, night, violence, myth. To read Giono is to be immersed -- Francois Nourissier
