Michel Le Bris (1 February 1944 – 30 January 2021) was a French writer.

Michel Le Bris in 2008

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He was a specialist on Robert Louis Stevenson and the organizer of the Saint-Malo literary festival "Astonishing Voyageurs" which he started in 1990.[1][2][3][4]

Le Bris' À traverse l'Écosse was published in 1992.[5] Lesley Graham makes a critical assessment of its evocation of Stevenson's Edinburgh in her essay "Questions of Identity on the Stevenson Trail in Scotland".[6]

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  1. ^ "L'écrivain Michel Le Bris est mort". Jan 30, 2021 – via Le Monde.
  2. ^ "Mort de Michel Le Bris, l'écrivain pirate". Les Echos. Jan 30, 2021.
  3. ^ "Décès de l'écrivain Michel Le Bris". Le Droit. Jan 30, 2021.
  4. ^ Carrive, Lorélie (Jan 30, 2021). "Michel Le Bris, fondateur du festival Étonnants Voyageurs, est mort". www.franceinter.fr.
  5. ^ Le Bris, Michel (1992), À traverse l'Écosse, Éditions complexe, Bruxelles, ISBN 9782870274439
  6. ^ Graham, Lesley, "Questions of Identity on the Stevenson Trail in Scotland", in Brown, Ian & Desmarest, Clarisse Godard, (eds.), (2023), Writing Scottishness: Literature and the Shaping of Scottish National Identities, Association for Scottish Literature, Glasgow, pp. 138 - 156, ISBN 978-1-908980-39-7