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Jean Hougron was born on 1 July, 1923 in China, is a French novelist. Discover Jean Hougron's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?
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2001 |
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Jean Hougron Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Jean Hougron worth at the age of 78 years old? Jean Hougron’s income source is mostly from being a successful novelist. He is from China. We have estimated Jean Hougron's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Jean Hougron (1 July 1923 - 22 May 2001) was a French novelist, famous for a series of novels set in French Indochina in the mid-20th century, which is where he resided and travelled for several years.
Several of these novels are collected in the series La Nuit Indochinoise (The Indochina Night), which include several best sellers, such as Tu récolteras la tempête (Reap the Wirlwind).
Jean Hougron was born on 1 July 1923 to a French Breton family in Calvados, a department of north-western France between Normandy and Brittany.
He began his professional life as a teacher of English and sciences in north-western towns, then moved south to Marseille to work for one year with an import-export trading firm.
In his youth, Jean Hougron absolutely wanted to leave France.
This firm sent him to Indochina in June 1947.
From there, he exercised several trades, travelling across Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and southern China, while learning to speak some of the regional languages.
In 1949, he returned to Saigon, Vietnam, where he worked at the US consulate and then at Radio France Asie, the Asian branch of the French state-owned radio broadcasting corporation.
From his years in Indochina, he came with many anecdotes, observations and souvenirs, which he used to write novels, starting with Tu récolteras la tempête (1950).
He published several novels, mostly based in Indochina, which met with great success, especially the series of novels the La Nuit Indochinoise collection.
He returned to France in 1951.
In 1953, he was awarded the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française (French Academy Novel Prize) for these books.
Hougron's novels are not focused on political subjects, such as on the French Indochina colony and the decolonization movement in South Asia during or after World War II and the beginning of the First Indochina War, but rather on studies of atmosphere, climate, landscape, characters, and human relations.
He has been sometimes called "The French Joseph Conrad".
Several of his books have been translated and published in English and other languages.
He continued writing novels, which were often best sellers and some of which were made into movies (I'll Get Back to Kandara (1956), directed by Victor Vicas, and Fugitive in Saigon (1957), directed by Marcel Camus).
While the context of his books is dated, some of them, especially the Nuit Indochinoise series, have been re-edited regularly, and he has retained a steady readership.
He died on 22 May 2001 in Paris.
