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Frédéric Mistral
1830–1914
A Nobel Prize-winning poet from Provence, he helped bring the Occitan language to a wider audience through vivid verse and devoted scholarship. His work is closely tied to the landscapes, traditions, and speech of southern France.
4 Audiobooks
Mirèio, a Provençal Poem
by Frédéric Mistral
Mes Origines; Mémoires et Récits de Frédéric Mistral
by Frédéric Mistral
Le Poème du Rhône, en XII chants. Texte Provençal et Traduction Française
by Frédéric Mistral
Memoirs of Mistral
by Frédéric Mistral
About the author
Born in Maillane in southern France in 1830, Frédéric Mistral became one of the central figures in the 19th-century revival of Provençal, now usually described as a form of Occitan. He wrote poetry in the language of his region and worked to preserve its literature and identity at a time when French cultural life was becoming more centralized.
Mistral was also a founder of the Félibrige, a literary movement dedicated to promoting Provençal language and culture. Alongside his poetry, he was an important lexicographer and scholar, and his literary and philological work earned him a share of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature.
He died in Maillane in 1914, having spent much of his life celebrating the people, speech, and traditions of Provence. Readers often remember him not only as a poet, but as a writer who turned regional culture into lasting literature.