Jean Canavaggio

Jean Canavaggio
Born(1936-07-23)23 July 1936
Died21 August 2023(2023-08-21) (aged 87)
Paris, France
EducationÉcole normale supérieure
OccupationsBiographer
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. 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. 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). His work in the Cervantian domain is now authoritative.

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

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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. ↑ Canavaggio, Jean, ed. (2007). "37-2 | 2007 Cervantès et la France". Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez (37–2). 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)
  7. ↑ "Jean CANAVAGGIO". carnetdujour.lefigaro.fr. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
  8. ↑ "CANAVAGGIO Jean - 1956 l | a-Ulm". www.archicubes.ens.fr. Retrieved 12 October 2026.