Death of writer and music critic Benoît Duteurtre at the age of 64

2024-07-17 17:34:06

At the head of the show Wonderful for me Benoît on France Musique, Benoît Duteurtre is the author of around forty works. He died of a heart attack on Tuesday, July 16.

Writer and journalist Benoît Duteurtre died on Tuesday after a heart attack, which occurred at his home in the Vosges, at the age of 64, his colleagues announced to AFP on Wednesday.

“The family was shocked by this murderous death,” his younger brother, Jean-Baptiste Duteurtre, told AFP.

The great-grandson of the President René Coty, who “corrected in it almost every day”, he was “enthusiastic about literature and music, always with kindness”, according to the latter.

Music critic and journalist, Benoît Duteurtre has hosted the show every week for 25 years on France Musique Wonderful for me Benoît.

“If you have written for Le Figaro littéraire or Le Monde de la musique, you are above all one of the old singers of Marianne, who are in our pages from the beginning,” a weekly paid tribute to u on Wednesday.

Multiple award-winning author

Benoît Duteurtre is also a well-known novelist and essayist, the author of forty works, including Everything must disappear (1992), Wonderful weather (1997), Travel to France (2001), awarded the Prix Médicis, Books for adults (2016) or even The great comfort published at the beginning of the year. He is also working on a new novel, according to his brother.

Benoît Duteurtre won the Henri Gal Grand Prize for Literature from the Académie française in 2017 for his entire career and was appointed Chancellor of Arts and Letters in 2021.

It was not enough to open the doors of the French University for him, which failed twice, in 2019 and in 2022. “Impacted” by these failures, “he asked himself many questions about whether he would still use it again in the coming years,” his brother told AFP.