Jean-Loup Trassard

Jean-Loup Trassard (11 August 1933, Saint-Hilaire-du-Maine) is a French writer and photographer. He says of himself that he is a "writer of agriculture." Since 1961, he has been publishing short texts, narratives, photographs and texts in which he recounts his "territory" by Gallimard and Le Temps qu'il fait. The vision he offers of the traditional rural civilization which disappears irrevocably, is both ethnological and poetic. In 2012 he was awarded the grand prix of the Société des gens de lettres Magdeleine-Cluzel for the whole of his work. His father, René, was an entrepreneur ("fermier de droits de place" - "farmer of rights of place"-) on the markets, which was a service to the communes organizing markets, in Brittany and in Normandy. He was a single child who went to the secular school of the village. Catechism, communions and masses were little appreciated. He lived a country childhood punctuated by agricultural work and which would influence all his work as a writer and p...