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Bernard Nabonne

1897–1951

A French novelist and biographer remembered for vividly rooted stories of place, he won major literary prizes and built a reputation across fiction and historical writing.

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by Bernard Nabonne

About the author

Born in 1897, Bernard Nabonne was a French writer associated with Béarn. Sources found for this overview describe him as best known for novels published in the 1920s, including La Butte aux Cailles (1925) and Maitena (1927).

His work also reached readers through prize-winning books in the years that followed. The information I found credits Maitena with the Prix Renaudot, À l'abandon (1932) with the Prix Montyon, À la Gasconne (1935) with the Prix Paul-Flat, and Joseph Bonaparte (1950) with the Prix Thérouanne.

Nabonne died in 1951. Even in this brief record, he stands out as a writer whose career moved between novels and historical or biographical subjects, with a strong sense of regional identity running through his work.