Michel Arrivé (7 December 1936 – 3 April 2017) was a French novelist, short story writer, linguist and academic. He was a Professor of Linguistics and Semiotics at Paris Nanterre University from 1983 to 2006. He authored several novels and short stories.

Early life

Michel Arrivé was born on 7 December 1936 in

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near Paris. His father was an engineer and his mother was a schoolteacher. His father was arrested in 1940, and Arrivé was raised by his extended family during the war. Arrivé earned his

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at 16. He passed

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at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and earned the

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at 21.

Career

Arrivé began his career as a high school teacher in Évreux and Pontoise. He subsequently became

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's assistant at the University of Paris. He taught linguistics at the University of Tours, until he became a Professor of Linguistics and Semiotics at Paris Nanterre University in 1983. He retired in 2006. During the course of his career, he published academic research about

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, Sigmund Freud,

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and

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. Arrivé was also a novelist and short story writer in 1977.

Personal life and death

Arrivé got married at 19 and had his first child at 20. He died on 3 April 2017 in Saint-Cloud near Paris.

Selected works

Linguistics

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Short stories

Novels

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References

1936 births 2017 deaths Writers from Neuilly-sur-Seine Linguists from France Academic staff of the University of Paris French male novelists 20th-century French novelists 20th-century French male writers 21st-century French novelists 21st-century French male writers {{France-novelist-20thC-stub