Jean-Paul Champseix, scholar of Kadaré and critic for En attendant Nadeau, dies at 72
The writer and specialist in the work of Ismail Kadaré has died in Saint-Malo, the literary site En attendant Nadeau reported.
Jean-Paul Champseix has died at the age of 72 in Saint-Malo, according to the French literary review En attendant Nadeau, where he had been a contributor since the publication's founding.
Champseix was known as a specialist of the Albanian novelist Ismail Kadaré. Over the years he wrote for En attendant Nadeau on a wide range of subjects, work the site describes as marked by a formidable curiosity and a generous humanism.
The site's tribute, titled 'La comptine infinie de Jean-Paul Champseix', was published on 22 October. No further detail on his career or other writings was given in the announcement.
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