# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michel-tournier
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:09:39.877Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michel-tournier"
name: "Michel Tournier"
slug: "michel-tournier"
description: "Michel Tournier was a French writer. He won awards such as the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1967 for Friday, or, The Other Island and the Prix Goncourt for The Erl-King in 1970. \nHis inspirations included traditional German culture, Catholicism and the philosophies of Gaston Bachelard. He resided in Choisel and was a member of the Académie Goncourt. His autobiography has been translated and published as The Wind Spirit. He was on occasion in contention for the Nobel Prize in Literature."
tagline: "French writer (1924–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michel_Tournier.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1924-12-19"
deathDate: "2016-01-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump