Maurice Polard

Maurice Polard (19 September 1932, Guipavas (Finistère) is a French novelist and short stories writer. After his childhood at Treflez, he continued his studies in Lesneven then Brest and Rennes where he obtained the agrégation of English. He made his career as a teacher at Landerneau and Brest.

His first novel, La Saison du maître, very much noticed at the time, recalled the war school in Britain in the mid-1980s.