Clément, François
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1925-2005) French author in whose sf novel, Naissance d'un Île (1973; trans Helen Weaver as Birth of an Island 1975), a small group of surviving French officials attempt to re-establish something like civilization on a small South Pacific Island after a devastating war; a trip to Sydney, New South Wales, where they find only a Ruined Earth, determines them to return to the island and cultivate their garden. [JC]
François Clément
born France: 1925
died 2005
works
- Naissance d'un Île (Paris: R Laffont, 1973) [hb/binding unknown/]
- Birth of an Island (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975) [trans by Helen Weaver of the above: hb/]
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