Michel Bernard
Invité au Festival Livres & Musiques 2018
Michel Bernard was born in Bar-le-Duc. A senior civil servant, he is the author of Mes tours de France (L'Âge d'Homme, 1999, La Petite Vermillon, 2014) and Comme un enfant, a fictionalized biography of Charles Trenet (Le Temps qu'il fait, 2003). After La Tranchée de Calonne in 2007, awarded the Erckmann-Chatrian Prize, he published La Maison du docteur Laheurte (2008, Maurice Genevoix Prize), Le Corps de la France (2010, Erwan Bergot Prize of the Army), Pour Genevoix (2011), and Les Forêts de Ravel (2015).
In the fall of 2016 was published, still at La Table Ronde, Deux remords by Claude Monet, which won the Marguerite Puhl-Demange prize and the Libraires en Seine prize.
In January 2018 his new novel, Le Bon Coeur, about Joan of Arc, will be published.
