Jules Verne

This article is about the French writer. For other uses, see Jules Verne (disambiguation).

Jules Verne
Portrait c. 1884
Portrait c. 1884
Born(1828-02-08)8 February 1828
Nantes, Brittany, Kingdom of France
Died24 March 1905(1905-03-24) (aged 77)
Amiens, Picardy, French Republic
Resting placeCimetière de La Madeleine, Amiens, France
OccupationWriter
LanguageFrench
Genre
  • Science fiction
  • children's books
  • novel
  • novella
  • drama
  • poetry
  • song
  • autobiography
  • non-fiction
Literary movementRomanticism/Neo-romanticism
Notable works
Notable awardsLegion of Honour – Officer
1892
Spouse
Honorine Anne Hébée du Fraysne de Viane
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(m. 1857)​
ChildrenValentine Morel (stepdaughter)
Suzanne Morel (stepdaughter)
Michel Verne
Signature

Jules Gabriel Verne (/vɜːrn/;[1][2] French: [ʒyl ɡabʁijɛl vɛʁn]; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905)[3] was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires,[3] a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels, always well-researched according to the scientific knowledge then available, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time.

In addition to his novels, he wrote numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical accounts, poetry, songs, and scientific, artistic, and literary studies. His work has been adapted for film and television since the beginning of cinema, as well as for comic books, theater, opera, music and video games.

Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism.[4] His reputation was markedly different in the Anglosphere where he had often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels have often been printed. Since the 1980s, his literary reputation has improved.[5]

Jules Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking below Agatha Christie and above William Shakespeare.[6] He has sometimes been called the "father of science fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.[7] In the 2010s, he was the most translated French author in the world. In France, 2005 was declared "Jules Verne Year" on the occasion of the centenary of the writer's death.


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  1. ^ Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.
  2. ^ "Verne". Dictionary.com. Archived from the original on 6 August 2024. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
  3. ^ a b Evans, Arthur B. (23 April 2020). "Jules Verne: French author". In Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica (online ed.). Archived from the original on 20 September 2020. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  4. ^ Angenot 1973, p. 34.
  5. ^ Evans 2000, p. 33.
  6. ^ UNESCO 2013.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference Roberts48 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).