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Peter Mayle (1939–2018)

Auteur de Une année en Provence

66+ oeuvres 19,168 utilisateurs 362 critiques 47 Favoris

A propos de l'auteur

Peter Mayle was born in Brighton, England on June 14, 1939. He began his career in advertising as a copywriter and rose to the executive ranks, but left advertising in 1975 to write educational books, including a series on sex education for children and young adults. His educational books including afficher plus Where Did I Come From? and What's Happening to Me? His travel memoir, A Year in Provence, received the British Book Awards' Best Travel Book of the Year in 1990 and was adapted into a television mini-series. His other nonfiction books included Toujours Provence, Encore Provence, Provence A-Z, and French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork and Corkscrew. His fiction books included The Marseille Caper, The Corsican Caper, and A Good Year, which was adapted into a 2006 film of the same name starring Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard. Mayle died on January 18, 2018 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Peter Mayle

Une année en Provence (1990) 5,523 exemplaires
Provence toujours (1991) 2,361 exemplaires
Le Bonheur en Provence (1999) 1,344 exemplaires
Un bon cru (2004) 1,161 exemplaires
Hotel Pastis (1993) 1,156 exemplaires
La femme aux melons (1997) 910 exemplaires
Anything Considered (1996) 748 exemplaires
Une vie de chien (1995) 747 exemplaires
Château-l'arnaque (2009) 660 exemplaires
Acquired Tastes (1993) 597 exemplaires
The Marseille Caper (2012) 340 exemplaires
Dictionnaire amoureux de la Provence (2006) 242 exemplaires
The Corsican Caper (2014) 187 exemplaires
The Diamond Caper (2015) 114 exemplaires
Provence toujours (1991) 70 exemplaires
Provence from the Air (1994) 54 exemplaires
Man's Best Friend (1984) 53 exemplaires
The Provence Trilogy (1999) 45 exemplaires
Why Are We Getting a Divorce? (1979) 44 exemplaires
How To Be A Pregnant Father (1977) 40 exemplaires
Wicked Willie's Guide to Women (1986) 25 exemplaires
Provence (paintings) (1993) 21 exemplaires
Baby Taming (1978) 20 exemplaires
Reves et cauchemars (1986) 18 exemplaires
Will I Go To Heaven? (1976) 10 exemplaires
Wicked Willie's Low-down on Men (1987) 8 exemplaires
Wicked Willie Stand Up Comic Book (1990) 6 exemplaires
Postcards from Summer (1996) 6 exemplaires
O Melhor Amigo do Homem (1998) 2 exemplaires
Provence A-z -- 2006 publication (2006) 2 exemplaires
Bor, mm̀or, Provence : regňy (2005) 1 exemplaire
Memórias de um cão 1 exemplaire
BANA NELER OLUYOR 1 exemplaire
Chi ha rubato Cesanne? (1998) 1 exemplaire
2004 1 exemplaire
Què em passa? 1 exemplaire
Alt har interesse — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Der er ingen ende på Provence — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
3x Provence (2015) 1 exemplaire
Willie's Away (1988) 1 exemplaire
The Honeymoon Book (1983) 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

A Good Year [2006 film] (2006) — Original book — 116 exemplaires
Travelers' Tales PROVENCE : True Stories (2003) — Contributeur — 29 exemplaires

Étiqueté

Partage des connaissances

Nom canonique
Mayle, Peter
Nom légal
Mayle, Peter Garch
Date de naissance
1939-06-14
Date de décès
2018-01-18
Sexe
male
Nationalité
Royaume-Uni
Lieu de naissance
Oxshott, Elmbridge, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
Lieu du décès
Aix-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Lieux de résidence
Vaugines, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (2011|2018)
Lourmarin, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
The Hamptons, New York, Etats-Unis (19 61, 19 90 | 19 94)
Ménerbes, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (1987|1990)
Londres, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni (1961)
La Barbade (1945|1961) (tout afficher 7)
Brighton, Sussex, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni (1939|1945)
Études
Brighton College
Professions
Publicitaire
Organisations
Papert Koenig, Londres, New York (Publicitaire, Directeur créatif, | 19 74)
Ogilvy and Mather, New York (Publicitaire, 19 61)
Shell Oil, Londres (Publiciatire, 1957)
Prix et distinctions
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (2002)
Courte biographie
Peter Mayle was born in Brighton, England. Following World War II, the family moved to Barbados, where his father served as an employee of the British Colonial Office. Mayle returned to England after leaving school at age 16. His first job in 1957 was as a trainee at Shell Oil's London office. He was more interested in advertising than oil, however, and by 1961 had became a copywriter at Shell's ad agency, Ogilvy & Mather, in New York City. Subsequently, he was hired by Papert Koenig Lois and returned to London to head up the creative team there. When the company had financial troubles in the mid-1960s, Mayle and a colleague bought the London operation. They developed the business and after five years, it was bought by BBDO. He then commuted between the USA and the UK as creative director. By 1974, Mayle had tired of advertising and transatlantic commuting, and quit to write full-time. He started off by writing educational books, including a series on sex education for children and young people. He also wrote, with illustrator Gray Jolliffe, a series of humorous books about the character Wicked Willie. His most significant career move probably was the decision to relocate to Ménerbes, a village in the Luberon region of southern France, in the late 1980s. There his plans to write a novel were overtaken by the events of life as an expatriate in his new environment. They provided the material for his 1989 book A Year in Provence, an international bestseller that became a media phenomenon. Many more books followed, which were translated in more than 20 languages. Mayle also wrote articles for magazines and newspapers. A Year in Provence was adapted into a highly popular British television series in 1993. Mayle had to move to Amagansett on Long Island, New York, to get away from the thousands of fans and sightseers who showed up at his home in Provence. He later returned to France and a home in Vaugines, also in the Luberon.  The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor in 2002, for "coopération et francophonie."
Notice de désambigüisation
This page was formerly split, presumably because the topics written about are very diverse and an assumption was made that they couldn't have been the same author. Works that were previously on #2 had been moved to #1, leaving #2 empty. All the works in the unknowns were related to works in #1, so I unsplit the page.

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Légèr, facile à lire et entraînant.
Bon livre!
 
Signalé
dashi | 42 autres critiques | Jun 29, 2010 |
Insipide et sans saveur mais très bien rédigé, ce petit livre relate les aventures de Boy de sa perspective de chien. Les histoires sont mignones et sans prétension sur le mode humoristique, mais elles ne cassent pas quatre pattes à un canard. Bonne lecture pour le bus.
½
 
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Cecilturtle | 15 autres critiques | Jul 7, 2008 |
Une vision délicieusement fausse de la Provence. Surtout ne pas en croire un mot.... Pourtant la critique même aimable est intéressante. Les anglo-saxons sont décidement de drôles d'oiseaux. Amoureux de la France, envieux de son art de vivre et décidés pourtant à tout changer chez nous pour que nous finissions par leur ressembler. Pauvres d'eux!!! sont pas couchés comme on dit dans le MIdi.
 
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sylviane.ruen | 21 autres critiques | May 13, 2008 |

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Statistiques

Œuvres
66
Aussi par
14
Membres
19,168
Popularité
#1,138
Évaluation
½ 3.6
Critiques
362
ISBN
737
Langues
21
Favoris
47

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