Biography in English

Joan-Claudi Forêt is an author in Occitan born Lyon (France). He discovers the Occitan language when he is a teenager and since then he keeps on speaking it, reading it and writing it in both its Northern Occitan and Languadocian Occitan dialectal variants.

PhD in Language and Literature, while working as a teacher of French at the Chamonix High School, he is awarded the Literary Prize "Triangle d’Amitié" for his work La Vallée perdue [The lost valley, 1987], his novel on the high mountain wild life. Later on, he began to teach at the University of Montpellier, he publishes several novels in Occitan and participates in the creation of the Occitan publishing house Edicions Jorn.

Among his most outstanding works are, in prose, La Pèire d’asard, awarded the prestigious Pau Froment Prize in 1991; Lo libre dels grands nombres, o falses e us de fals, Antígona Prize 2000, and Sang e saba (2005). In poetry, Cants de l’ochava (2000), Tres pòbles de la lòna : Etnografias imaginàrias, book and CD with music by Hervé Rémon and illustrations by Jürgen Schilling (2006), and his last collection, Un grand eissam de mots (2013), are the most worth mentioning.

-> Access to his page on Wikipedia here.

-> Access to the Festival "Encontre Internacional 2 Penents" Website here.