Biography

Tony Duvert was born on July 2, 1945 in Thoré-la-Rochette, Loir-et-Cher, France. Tony was a writer, known for Atlantic Island (2003). Tony died on August 20, 2008 in Thoré-la-Rochette, Loir-et-Cher, France.

In the 1970s he achieved some renown, winning the Prix Médicis in 1973 for his novel Paysage de Fantaisie.

Despite his productivity and critical success, Duvert had not achieved the public success he hoped for. To reach a wider audience and raise awareness of his ideas, he decided to write a novel that would incorporate his favourite themes while being less sexually explicit and written in a classic form. The result was L'Île Atlantique (1979, published in English as Atlantic Island in 2017), which received critical raves and sold somewhat better than his previous works.

Tony Duvert was a French writer and philosopher.

Duvert's writings are notable both for their style and core themes: the celebration and defence of paedophilia, and criticism of modern child-rearing. In the 1970s attitudes to sexual liberation and child sexuality allowed Duvert to express himself publicly.

Duvert's body was discovered at his home in August 2008, several weeks after his death, in a state of decomposition. His death briefly raised his media profile in France again.