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- Pierre Guyotat was born on January 9, 1940 in Bourg-Argental, Loire, France. He was a writer, known for Les Nuits de France Culture (1994), Balances des blancs (2013) and Origins of the 21st Century (2000). He died on February 7, 2020 in Paris, France.
- Became a member of the French Communist Party in 1968, which he left in 1971.
- Published "Eden, Eden, Eden" in 1971. The book was banned from being publicised or sold to under-18s, until 1981. A petition of international support was signed (notably by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Boulez, Joseph Beuys, Pierre Dac, Jean Genet, Joseph Kessel, Maurice Blanchot, Max Ernst, Italo Calvino, Jacques Monod, Simone de Beauvoir, and Nathalie Sarraute). François Mitterrand, and Georges Pompidou, tried to get the ban lifted but it remained. Claude Simon (who won the Nobel Prize in 1985) resigned from the jury of the Prix Médicis after the prize wasn't awarded to "Eden, Eden, Eden".
- Was called to Algeria in 1960. In 1962, was found guilty of deserting and publishing forbidden material. After 3 months in jail he was transferred to a disciplinary centre. Back in Paris, he got involved in journalism, writing first for France Observateur, then for Nouvel Observateur.
- Was involved in the reopening of the Centre Georges Pompidou at Beaubourg in 2000, contributing a reading of the first pages of "Progéniture".
- Won the Prix Décembre in 2006.
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