The writer Philippe Sollers, one of the best-known literary figures in France in the last half century, has died at the age of 86, the Gallimard publishing house announced on Saturday.
"The Gallimard publishing house announces with sadness the death of Philippe Sollers, born Philippe Joyaux, on May 5, 2023," reads a statement.
Born on November 28, 1936 in Talence, in the southwest of France, Sollers left his studies very young to dedicate himself fully to literature.
Author of more than 80 novels, essays and monographs, he published his first novel Une curieuse solitude at the age of 22, which received praise from the poet Louis Aragon.
Three years later, in 1961, he won the Médicis prize with Le Parc. But he achieved fame with his novel Women in 1983.
He had been married since 1967 to the psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva, with whom he had a son.
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