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

Works

1970: L'obstiné 1971: Le greffier 1973: Cocteau - Moretti, l'âge du verseau 1973: Les chats « Il n'y a pas de quoi fouetter un homme » 1974: L'Ami 1975: Dora, dans l'enfer du camp de concentration où les savants nazis préparaient la conquête de l'espace 1977: La Kermesse aux idoles 1979: Avenue des Diables-Bleus 1980: Les Roues de la fortune 1981: , Éditions Grasset, Prix Interallié 1983: Entre chien et chat 1984: Le kiosque à musique 1987: Mes rayons de soleil 1989: La chanson de Maria 1990: Principauté de Monaco 1991: Le ruban rouge, Prix Jacques-Chardonne 1994: Mes ports d'attache 1997: Le roi René 1994: Villages perchés de Provence et de la Riviera 1998: Ils s'aimaient 1998: Parc national du Mercantour. Montagnes du soleil, with Christine Michiels and Bertrand Bodin 2000: Une Bouffée d'air frais 2000: Saint-Malo, le rêve breton d'une enfance niçoise 2001: Les contes du lapin agile (posthumous) 2001: , presented and foreworded by Bernard Morlino, (posthumous) 2001: Les Chats de Paris, with Joseph Delteil, (posthumous) 2001: Sa majesté le chat, (posthumous) 2008: Le goût de Nice, with , and Max Gallo, (posthumous) 2010: Ils ont éclairé mon chemin, an anthology of literary critics brought together and presented by Bernard Morlino.