Inside Velter's world
By Mei Jia | China Daily | Updated: 2014-05-28 06:58
A French poet draws inspiration from Chinese wisdom as he tries to shun material success. Mei Jia interviews him.
You don't need to be born into royalty to live a charmed life as French poet Andre Velter shows.
The winner of France's top literary Goncourt Prize says he was poor until the age of 45, leading a life that only consisted of writing, traveling and being happy.
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