Michel Picard (writer)

Michel Picard (born 15 August 1931 in Nancy) is a French professor, writer and literary critic.

A novelist, essayist, academic, Michel Picard published at a very young age (under pseudonym) two novels at Gallimard and collaborated regularly with the Nouvelle Revue française.

Agrégé de Lettres, he supported in January 1971 at the Sorbonne a Doctorate thesis which aroused interest and controversy, both for the chosen work, that of Roger Vailland, and for the method adopted.

In 2002, La Tentation will extend the thesis to art in general, starting from the famous engraving of Jacques Callot.

However, joining practice to theory, he pursued his work as novelist and published four novels in recent years, one of which, notably, "Matantemma", attracted the attention of the critics and obtained the Feuille d'or de la ville de Nancy prize.