Jean-Loup Trassard

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Jean-Loup Trassard (11 August 1933, Saint-Hilaire-du-Maine) is a French writer and photographer. He says of himself that he is a "writer of agriculture." Since 1961, he has been publishing short texts, narratives, photographs and texts in which he recounts his "territory" by Gallimard and Le Temps qu'il fait. The vision he offers of the traditional rural civilization which disappears irrevocably, is both ethnological and poetic. In 2012 he was awarded the grand prix of the Société des gens de lettres Magdeleine-Cluzel for the whole of his work. His father, René, was an entrepreneur ("fermie... Show more

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