He won the Prix Joseph Kessel and has also been recognized as a specialist in Marcel Proust.
Born in Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Nicole left the archipelago at the age of 14 in 1957 to study at a Vendée boarding school.
[1] After a stay in Alaska in 1968, he began an academic career in the United States[1] and defended a doctoral thesis in French literature.
He wrote his first novel L’Œuvre des mers,[2] 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.
He participated in the edition in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade of In Search of Lost Time[1] as well as in the edition of the volumes À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs and Le Temps retrouvé for Le Livre de Poche in 1993.