Louis Nucera

Louis Nucéra (17 July 1928 – 9 August 2000) was an award-winning 20th-century French writer. He published his first novel L'obstiné in 1970.

Biography

As well as being a writer, Nucéra was a cyclist (he rode the same circuit as the 1949 Tour de France), a bank clerk, a journalist, a press secretary in a record company, and a literary director at JC Lattès. He recalls his childhood in Nice in Avenue des Diables bleus. In 1991 he wrote Le ruban rouge which chronicles the life of Italian immigrants. In Mes ports d’attache he evokes his friendships with Cioran, Kessel, Picasso, Cocteau, Hardellet, Brassens and Moretti.

Nucéra died on August 9, 2000, in the industrial zone of Carros when he was hit by a car while bike riding.

Awards

1981: Prix Interallié for Le Chemin de la Lanterne

1991: Prix Jacques-Chardonne for Le ruban rouge

1993: Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française for the whole of his work