Awards & Winners

René Barjavel

Date of Birth 24-January-1911
Place of Birth Nyons
(Drôme, Rhône-Alpes, France)
Nationality France
Also know as Rene Barjavel, Rene Barjavel
Profession Novelist, Screenwriter, Author, Journalist, Critic
René Barjavel was a French author, journalist and critic who may have been the first to think of the grandfather paradox in time travel. He was born in Nyons, a town in the Drôme department in southeastern France. He is best known as a science fiction author, whose work often involved the fall of civilisation due to technocratic hubris and the madness of war, but who also favoured themes emphasising the durability of love. René Barjavel wrote several novels with these themes, such as Ravage, Le Grand Secret, La Nuit des temps, and Une rose au paradis. His writing is poetic, dreamy and sometimes philosophical. Some of his works have their roots in an empirical and poetic questioning of the existence of God. He was also interested in the environmental heritage which we leave to future generations. Whilst his works are rarely taught in French schools, his books are very popular in France. Barjavel wrote Le Voyageur imprudent, the first novel to present the famous Grandfather paradox of time travel: if one goes backwards in time and kills one of their ancestors before he had children, the traveller cannot exist and therefore cannot kill the ancestor.

Awards by René Barjavel

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1953


German Film Award - Silver Cup for Outstanding Feature Film Promoting Democratic Values
Honored for : The Little World of Don Camillo

Nominations 1953 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
German Film Award - Silver Cup for Outstanding Feature Film Promoting Democratic Values The Little World of Don Camillo