Jean Giraudoux

Japanese: ジロードゥー（英語表記）Jean Giraudoux

1882‐1944
French novelist, playwright, and diplomat. Born in Bellac in southwestern France, he was a brilliant student who consistently ranked first in his classes from elementary school to École Normale Supérieure. After a year as a French instructor at Harvard University, he was put in charge of the literary column of Le Matin in 1907, and published a poetic prose work, Les Country Women, two years later, which was highly praised by Gide. In 1910 he was appointed diplomat (and in his final years as Director of Intelligence), but was called up to serve in World War I and was wounded twice. In parallel with his diplomatic duties, he also devoted himself to writing, and began to seriously write novels around the time of his autobiographical novel, Les Pathétiques, in 1918.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1882‐1944
フランスの小説家，劇作家，外交官。南西フランスのベラックに生まれ，小学校から高等師範学校に至るまで首席を通した秀才であった。ハーバード大学のフランス語講師を1年間勤めたのち，1907年には《ル･マタン》紙の文芸欄を担当し，翌々年に詩的散文《田舎の女たち》を発表して，ジッドに激賞された。10年に外交官(最晩年には情報局長)に登用されたが，第1次大戦に召集され，2度も負傷する。外交官の職務と並行して文筆にも励み，18年の自伝的小説《悲壮なシモン》あたりから，本格的に小説の創作に取り組む。

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