Michel Deon Author, Editor & Translator

Michel Déon was a novelist and distinguished member of Academie Francaise who lived in Galway from 1976. He is best known as author of The Purple Taxi, which became a film in 1977 starring Fred Astaire, Charlotte Rampling and Peter Ustinov, introducing the French public to the glories of Connemara. Horseman Pass By! was originally published by Gallimard in 2005 and is now available for the first time in English.