Michel Breitman (10 August 1926 – 16 May 2009) was a French writer and translator. He won the 1986 edition of the Prix des Deux Magots with his novel Le Témoin de poussière.
A translator of Dino Buzzati, Breitman also published numerous novels, short stories and radio plays.
He wrote his first novel, Vétrino ou le bonhomme de verre directly in Italian, and upon returning to France, he wrote all his other works in his native tongue.
In 1964, he published the novella Sébastien.
The film Fortunat, featuring Bourvil and Michèle Morgan, was an adaptation of his eponymous novel published in 1955.
Bibliography 1952: Carnet des Faux-Semblants, Mercure de France 1953: Vetrino, Vallechi Editore 1955: Fortunat, ou le père adopté, Éditions Denoël 1956: L'Homme aux mouettes, Denoël 1957: Le Mal de Dieu, Denoël 1958: Une lettre, Denoël 1964: Sébastien, Denoël 1970: D'exil en exil, Denoël 1985: Le Témoin de poussière, Laffont, Prix Ève Delacroix of the Académie française and Prix des Deux Magots 1995: Après la mort de l'homme, Éditions Julliard
References
External links Michel Breitman on the site of the Académie française "Tempête pour le crâne de Mozart" with Michel Breitman (Tempest for the skull of Mozart)