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Henri Bosco (1888–1976) was the fifth and only surviving child born to parents of mixed Provençal and Italian descent; his father, whose family was related to Saint John Bosco, made a career as an opera tenor. In 1907, Bosco left his native Avignon to enroll at the University of Grenoble; in 1913 he moved to Algeria to teach French, Latin, and Greek. He fought in World War I, then decamped for Naples in 1920, where he would teach French and write for the next ten years. His first novel, Pierre Lampédouze, was published in 1924, and in 1930 he returned to France and married…

Pierre Lampédouze, 1924
Le Sanglier, 1932
Le Trestoulas with L'Habitant de Sivergues, 1935
L'Ane Culotte, 1937 (Translated by Sister Mary Theresa McCarthy, Culotte the Donkey, 1978). Published in 1950 with illustrations by Nicolas Eekman.
Hyacinthe, 1940
L'Apocalypse de Saint Jean 1942
Bucoliques de Provence, 1944
Le Jardin d'Hyacinthe, 1945
Le Mas Théotime, 1945 (Prix Renaudot 1945) (Translated by Mervyn Savill, The Farm Théotime, 1946)
L'Enfant et la Rivière, 1945 (Translated by Gerard Hopkins, The Boy and the River, 1956)
Monsieur Carre-Benoît à la campagne, 1947 (Translated by Mervyn Savill, Monsieur Carre-Benoît in the Country, 1958)
Sylvius, 1948
Malicroix, 1948
Le Roseau et la…

- Prix Renaudot за роман "Le Mas Théotime (The Farm Théotime)" - 1945;
- Prix des Ambassadeurs (1949);
- Grand prix national des lettres (1953);
- Prix de l'Académie de Vaucluse (1966);
- Grand prix de la Mediterranée (1967);
- Grand prix de l'Académie française (1968).