Michel Peyramaure

Michel Peyramaure is a French novelist, often described as a regional writer or regionalist writer, author of a hundred novels, mostly historical. In 1979, he received the grand prize of literature from the SGDL for all of his work. He is considered by many to be one of the "greatest historical novelists."

After graduating from high school, he worked in his father's printing house, where he composed his first poems, then became a journalist at La Montagne, before devoting himself to literary writing. In 1954, he published his first novel, Paradis entre quatre murs , published by Robert Laffont. The following year appeared his first historical work, The Bal des ribauds, regularly reissued.

A prolific author, Michel Peyramaure is dedicated to the history of France, particularly through the history of his provinces, which inscribes his work in the literature of the soil . With Claude Michelet and Denis Tillinac , he founded in the 1980s the School of Brive , writers movement of Corrèze , in the tradition of the nineteenth century popular novel.

He is also the author of many biographies of historical figures such as Joan of Arc, Henri IV, Louis XVI or Napoleon, but also artists like Suzanne Valadon or Sarah Bernhardt.

In 1979 , he received the grand prize of literature of the SGDL for all of his work. Other prizes have been awarded, including the Alexandre Dumas Prize, or the Prix du Printemps du Livre.

He is the author of a hundred novels, mostly devoted to the history of France, but also articles, prefaces, books of memories or works of a tourist nature.