Michel Haas is a French writer and researcher in the field of

paleoanthropology Paleoanthropology or paleo-anthropology is a branch of paleontology and anthropology which seeks to understand the early development of anatomically modern humans, a process known as hominization, through the reconstruction of evolutionary kinship ...

Biography

A former student of the

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and agrégé in philosophy in 1973, Michel Haas leeds a career in the academic world. He has taught in France and in the United States, particularly at

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(1982) in

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, as a Senior Lecturer. In addition, he has been working as a reader for the Olivier Orban and published the novel ''La Dernière Mise à mort'' which won the

prix des Deux Magots The Prix des Deux Magots is a major French literary prize. It is presented to new works, and is generally awarded to works that are more off-beat and less conventional than those that receive the more mainstream Prix Goncourt. The name derives from ...

in 1983.Prix des Deux Magots
/ref> He works today for the promotion of science in the field of paleoanthropology and lectures at the

Collège des Bernardins The Collège of Bernardins, or Collège Saint-Bernard, located no 20, rue de Poissy in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, is a former Cistercian college of the historic University of Paris. Founded by Stephen of Lexington, abbot of Clairvaux, and bui ...

Works

* 1983: ''La Dernière Mise à mort'' —

Prix des Deux Magots The Prix des Deux Magots is a major French literary prize. It is presented to new works, and is generally awarded to works that are more off-beat and less conventional than those that receive the more mainstream Prix Goncourt. The name derives from ...

* 1985: ''Amoureux fous de Venise'' (collective work)

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Michel Haas
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