(1911–2007)
Henri Troyat was a Russian-French writer and historian, member of the French Academy. His family fled Russia before the October Revolution, arriving in Paris in 1920, when he was 9 years old. He learned to speak quickly and was awarded the Goncourt Prize (1938) at the age of 27. In 1959 he was elected a member of the French Academy, publishing 1-2 novels a year until his death, the last published in 2010. He became famous for his biographies, especially of Russian personalities, but he also wrote a series of biographies of French writers. His novel In the Sign of the Bull was published in Czech in 1947.
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