About

Known credits:
12
Birthday:
1830-05-20
Place of birth:
La Bouille, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France
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Hector Malot

Overview

Hector-Henri Malot (Hector Malot) (20 May 1830 – 18 July 1907) was a French writer born in La Bouille, Seine-Maritime. He studied law in Rouen and Paris, but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic critic for Lloyd Francais and as a literary critic for L'Opinion Nationale.

His first book, published in 1859, was Les Amants. In total Malot wrote over 70 books. By far his most famous book is Sans Famille (Nobody's Boy, 1878), which deals with the travels of the young orphan Remi, who is sold to the street musician Vitalis at age 8. Sans Famille gained fame as a children's book, though it was not originally intended as such.

He announced his retirement as an author of fiction in 1895, but in 1896 he returned with the novel L'amour Dominateur as well as the account of his literary life Le Roman de mes Romans (The Novel of my Novels).

He died in Fontenay-sous-Bois in 1907.

Source: Article "Hector Malot" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known for

Writing
2018 Remi, Nobody's Boy Writing Novel 68
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2016 Remi, Nobody's Boy Writing Book N/A
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2000 Sans famille Writing Novel N/A
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2000 Without Family Writing Novel 59
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1996 Remy, Nobody's Girl Writing Original Concept 70
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1984 Without Family Writing Writer 59
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1981 Sans famille Writing Novel 69
Fair
1980 Nobody's Boy: Remi (Movie) Writing Novel 58
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1978 The Story of Perrine Writing Original Story 71
Good
1958 Sans famille Writing Novel 59
Average
1928 Town of Love Writing Original Story N/A
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1925 Sans famille Writing Novel N/A
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