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20th May 1830 |
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La Bouille, France |
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Hector Malot (May 20, 1830 - July 17, 1907) was a French writer born in La Bouille, close to Rouen. He studied law in Rouen and Paris, but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic critic for Lloyd Francais and as a literary critic for L'Opinion Nationale.
His first book, published in 1859, was Les Amants. In total, Malot wrote over 70 books. By far his most famous book is Sans Famille (Nobody's Boy, 1878), which deals with the travels of the young orphan Remi, who is sold to the streetmusician Vitalis at age 10. Sans Famille gained fame as a children's book, though it was not originally intended as such.
He announced his retirement as an author of fiction in 1895, but in 1896 he returned with the novel L'amour Dominateur as well as the account of his literary life Le Roman de mes Romans (The Novel of my Novels).
Works by Malot
- Victimes d'Amour (a trilogy)
- Les Amants (1859)
- Les Epoux (1865)
- Les Enfants (1869)
- Les Amours de Jacques (1860)
- Un beau-frère (1869)
- Une belle-mère (1869)
- Romain Kalbris (1869),
- Une Bonne affaire (1870)
- Mme Obernin (1870)
- Sans Famille (Nobody's Boy, 1878)
- En Famille (Nobody's Girl, 1893)
- L'amour Dominateur (1896)
- Le Roman de mes Romans (1896)
- Pages choisies (1898)
External link
- Works by Hector Malot at Project Gutenberg
- Free eBook of Conscience at Project Gutenberg
- Sans Famille has been interpreted in Japanese as an animated TV series
- "The Adventures of Remi" from the English translation of "Nobody's Boy"
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