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Jean Carrière
Jean Carrière (born 6 August 1928 – 7–8 May 2005) was a French writer.
Life.
Carrière was born in Nîmes. His mother, Andree Paoli, was originally from Cape Corsine. He was secretary to Jean Giono (on whom he wrote an essay) in Manosque, music critic in Paris, literary columnist at the ORTF.
He began his career of writer with his novel "Retour à Uzès" in 1967, (Académie française prize). He has published twenty books,
in his native region, has never ceased to open up to other horizons (the United States, Quebec, Brazil, Russia) and this taste for 
travel sometimes suggested an American poet.
This openness to the world is manifested in his friendships with Henry Miller, Henk Breuker, Curzio Malaparte, Joseph Delteil, Richard Aldington, Camilo José Cela , Lawrence Durrell, Jean Carrière, Gaston Miron ...
Ce friend of painters (Pierre Soulages, Jean Hugo, , ...) has often collaborated with them to create precious