Michel Host (1942 – 6 June 2021[1]) was a French writer.
He lived in Paris, where he taught language and literature of the Spanish Golden Age in CNED (1996) after Hispanic studies at the Sorbonne.
He was a columnist for the literary journal Revue des deux mondes and Regards.
Co-founder of the magazine L’Art du bref in 1995, he received the Prix Goncourt in 1986 for his second novel, Valet de nuit (Grasset).
Host died on 6 June 2021, from COVID-19 in Paris during the COVID-19 pandemic in France.