Writing · Novel · Writer
Born Sep 14, 1926 · Mons-en-Barœul, Nord, France
Active 1969–2016 · Awards: Prix Renaudot, Fénéon Prize for literature, Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française, Mallarmé Prize, Grand prix de poésie de la SGDL, honorary doctor of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Michel Butor (14 September 1926 – 24 August 2016) was a French poet, novelist, teacher, essayist, art critic and translator. Michel Marie François Butor was born in Mons-en-Barœul, a suburb of Lille, the third of seven children.