Robert Escarpit

Robert Escarpit, born on 24 April 1918 in Saint-Macaire (Gironde, France) - 19 November 2000 in Langon (Gironde), was a French academic, writer and journalist. He is most known to the public for his satiric articles in newspapers such as Le Monde in which he wrote around twenty columns per month from 1949 to 1979.

Escarpit spent his childhood and adolescence in Gironde. At the age of eighteen (1936), he chose to study English, more by necessity and interest as he wanted to continue his studies. He finished his associate, graduate, and postgraduate studies ending with a "Doctor of Literature" degree. He worked as a high-school teacher in Arcachon ( Gironde ) from 1943 to 1945. As a specialist in English literature, he is the author of some fifty books between fiction and sociological essays and novels .

Escarpit became known for his satirical short stories in Le Monde and as a literary critic for many magazines, columnist of Le Matin in 1983, then Sud-Ouest.

After World War II, he was Secretary General and Director of the French Institute of Latin America in Mexico. Later he was assistant professor of English and professor of comparative literature at the Faculty of Arts of Bordeaux (1951-1970), and founder of the Sociology Center of Literature which opened in 1960 (later Institute of Literature and Art of Mass Techniques) .

Escarpit served as the scientific director of the "International Dictionary of Literary Terms" Project (DITL V.2), ongoing project funded by the International Comparative Literature Association continued from 1988 by Jean-Marie Grassin.

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