Eugène Nicole

Eugène Nicole (born 1942) is a French writer. He became a professor at New York University in 1989 and has written five books about his childhood and his life journeys. He won the Prix Joseph Kessel and has also been recognized as a specialist in Marcel Proust.

Life Born in Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Nicole left the archipelago at the age of 14 in 1957 to study at a Vendée boarding school. He then took courses at the Sorbonne and at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris. After a stay in Alaska in 1968, he began an academic career in the United States the first opus of an autobiographical saga of five books describing his childhood in Saint Pierre and Miquelon, then the exile, the journeys, the round trips on the archipelago over the years. L’Œuvre des mers is the main work to which Nicole has devoted his life. He, himself, defines the first part as "the novel of a childhood and a place". À coups de pied-de-mouche, Coutras, France, Éditions Le Bleu du ciel, 2010, 122 p. Un Adieu au long cours, 2011, (first published in L’Œuvre des mers, expanded edition, Paris, Éditions de l’Olivier, 2011, 941 p. a saga comprising five parts containing the five books: L’Œuvre des mers, Les Larmes de pierre, Le Caillou de l’Enfant-Perdu, La ville sous son jour clair, Un adieu au long cours - prix Joseph-Kessel 2011. Les Eaux territoriales, Paris, Éditions de l’Olivier,2013, 180 p. Le Démon rassembleur, Paris, P.O.L., 2014, 224 p.