Jean Canavaggio
Born(1936-07-23)23 July 1936
Died21 August 2023(2023-08-21) (aged 87)
Paris, France
EducationÉcole normale supérieure
Occupation(s)Biographer
Professor

Jean Canavaggio (23 July 1936 – 21 August 2023) was a French biographer and emeritus professor of Spanish literature at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense.

Biography

Born in Paris in 1936, he was a student of the École normale supérieure (class 1956), Jean Canavaggio was a biographer and specialist of Cervantès. In 2001, he directed a new translation of his complete novels in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.[1] From 1988 to 1992, he was president of the jury of external agrégation of Spanish. From 1996 to 2001, he was director of the Casa de Velázquez at Madrid.[2] He was corresponding member of the Real Academia de la Lengua and the Real Academia de la Historia (Madrid) and honorary fellow of the Hispanic Society of America (New York).[3][4] His work in the Cervantian domain is now authoritative.[5]

Canavaggio dies of cancer in Paris on 21 August 2023, at the age of 87.[6]

Articles

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Collective works

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Works

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Professeur émérite de littérature espagnole à l'Université Paris-Nanterre, France Culture.
  2. ^ Jean Canavaggio, BNF.fr.
  3. ^ Jean Canavaggio - page personnelle en tant qu'enseignant - chercheur à Paris 10
  4. ^ "37-2 | 2007 Cervantès et la France". Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez (37–2). 2007. doi:10.4000/mcv.141.
  5. ^ Daniel Eisenberg. "Review of Jean Canavaggio's Cervantes".
  6. ^ Muere Jean Canavaggio, gran hispanista, y gran amigo de España ABC (in Spanish)