Jean Canavaggio (23 July 1936 – 21 August 2023) was a French biographer and emeritus professor of Spanish literature at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense.
Jean Canavaggio | |
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Died | 21 August 2023 Paris, France | (aged 87)
Education | École normale supérieure |
Occupation(s) | Biographer Professor |
Born in Paris in 1936, he was a student of the École normale supérieure (class 1956), Jean Canavaggio was a biographer and specialist of Cervantès. In 2001, he directed a new translation of his complete novels in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.[1] From 1988 to 1992, he was president of the jury of external agrégation of Spanish. From 1996 to 2001, he was director of the Casa de Velázquez at Madrid.[2] He was corresponding member of the Real Academia de la Lengua and the Real Academia de la Historia (Madrid) and honorary fellow of the Hispanic Society of America (New York).[3][4] His work in the Cervantian domain is now authoritative.[5]
Canavaggio dies of cancer in Paris on 21 August 2023, at the age of 87.[6]
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