POET FRÉDÉRIC MISTRAL
(8 September 1830 – 25 March 1914)
Frédéric Mistral was a French writer and lexicographer of the Occitan language or Provençal (of Provence), a Romanic language spoken in southern France. He was born in Maillane in the "Bouches-du-Rhône département", in southern France.
Mistral won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 and was a founding member of Félibrige (a literary and cultural association founded by himself and other Provençal writers to defend and promote Occitan language and literature), and a member of l'Académie de Marseille.
Mistral won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 and was a founding member of Félibrige (a literary and cultural association founded by himself and other Provençal writers to defend and promote Occitan language and literature), and a member of l'Académie de Marseille.
Mistral's fame owed in part to Alphonse de Lamartine who sang his praises in the fortieth edition of his periodical "Cours familier de littérature", following the publication of Mistral's long Mirèio poem.
Besides Mireia, Mistral is the author of "Calendal", "Nerte", "Lys isclo d'or" ("The Island of Gold"), Lis oulivado ("The olivadas") and "The Poem of the Rhone". He is the most revered writer in Occitan literature.
Several schools bear Frédéric Mistral's name.
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