Le Mas Théotime

Henri Bosco (1888-1976) was a French writer renowned for his poetic novels evoking Provençal life, such as the Prix Renaudot-winning Le Mas Théotime (1945), Malicroix (1948), and children's classic L'Enfant et la Rivière (1945). Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times, he received major awards including the Grand Prix de Littérature de l'Académie française (1968), Grand prix national des Lettres (1953), and Grand prix de la Méditerranée (1967) NYRB, Pantheon.