Writer Philippe Sollers dies aged 86

The writer Philippe Sollers died at the age of 86 on Saturday May 6, learned France Inter from its publisher Gallimard. He was one of the figures of the literary landscape for more than half a century.

From his real name Philippe Joyaux, he is the author of a prolific work, of novels, essays, biographies, articles of literary criticism and forums, from 1958 until a few months ago.

Born November 28, 1936 in Talence, near Bordeaux, into a bourgeois family, he published his first novel A curious loneliness in 1958, at the age of 22, and immediately met with success. He is hailed by both Mauriac and Aragon, “The Vatican and the Kremlin”, he said mockingly. In 1961, his second novel, The park was awarded the Prix Médicis.