Dr Tony Shaw

Jean Giono published Pour saluer Melville  at the same time as he published his (and Lucien Jacques's, with the assistance of Joan S...

Much like Camus's La Peste , Giono's Le Hussard sur le toit  is an allegory of the Second World war seen as a plague. Giono dete...

Patrick Magnan (1922-2012) was born in Manosque and much inspried by Jean Giono. Thyde Monnier persuaded her editor Juillard to publish his...

Marcel de Kerolyr (1873-) began his working life as a violinist and married a singer whom he accompanied in Europe. They lived in Nice an...

'TAOS AMROUCHE 4 MARS 1913 - 2 AVRIL 1976' Until relatively recently the grave of Taos Amrouche wouldn't have meant a...

Pierre Citron's Giono 1875 [ sic ]  -1970  gets off to a bad start because the title page (as opposed to the correct cover title) ma...

The cover shows Arsule on the banks of a stream that she and Gédémus have pulled him from after a fall. She's been working like a ...

Jean Giono towers over Provençal literature. How can you describe the power of this big novel, which oozes, sings, and creeps into your s...

In the early morning of 5 August 1952 three people were murdered near the village of Lurs in Provence: the eminent scientist Jack Drummon...

This is what I completely forgot about last year, and which our guide to his home never even mentioned: Jean Giono's grave. « ...

Jean Giono à Manosque is written by Giono's daughter Sylvie, and is a biography of Le Paraïs the house as much as it is a biography ...

'LA MAISON NATALE ET D'ENFANCE DE JEAN GIONO C'est dans la maison d'en face, au 14 rue grande, Jean Giono vécut...

Un de Baumugnes (translated rather bizarrely as Lovers Are Never Losers ) is the second part of Giono's Pan trilogy, and anot...

Born in Manosque where he also died, Jean Giono was the son of a shoemaker born in Provence and of Italian descent. He is one of the gre...

In 1953 the Readers' Digest asked Jean Giono (1895–1970) to write a short account about the most extraordinary person he'd ever ...