Jean Lods (born 5 April 1938, in

Montbéliard Montbéliard (; traditional ) is a town in the Doubs Departments of France, department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in eastern France, about from the border with Switzerland. It is one of the two Subprefectures in F ...

) is a

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writer. He spent his childhood on the island of

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which later became the setting of a number of his novels. He won the

Prix Alain-Fournier The Prix Alain-Fournier is a French literary prize, awarded by the town of Saint-Amand-Montrond in honour of Alain-Fournier, author of ''Le Grand Meaulnes''. It is intended to give encouragement to a novelist at the beginning of their career, an ...

for his novel ''Le Bleu des vitraux'' and he was also nominated several times for the

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.Essay in ''Une communaute invisible'', 1996
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