Philippe de Baleine (27 September 1921 – 7 June 2018), also known as Philippe de Jonas,[1] was a French author.[2] He is the recipient of two literary prizes from the Académie française: the Prix J.-J. Weiss for Hôtel des Piranhas in 1984, and the Prix de Littérature générale for Voyage espiègle et romanesque sur le petit train du Congo in 1992.[3] He died in June 2018 at the age of 96.[4]

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