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Michel Sitjar
poet
- September 13, 1942
- June 10, 2019
- 76 years
- suicide by gunshot
About Michel Sitjar
Michel Sitjar was a poet. Born in 1942, Sitjar died in 2019 at the age of 76.
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Michel Sitjar (13 September 1942 – 10 June 2019) was an international rugby union and rugby league player for France and played club rugby for Agen. He also tried rugby league for a year in XIII Catalan after brutally stopping his career at 28. Sitjar played as a flanker and won three Brennus Shields with the Sporting Union Agenais (1962, 1965 and 1966).
In 2008 he published his first collection of poems (Rugby & Poésie), followed by the second one Rugby & Poésie, deuxième mi-temps two years later.
Sitjar committed suicide by gunshot at his home in Lamagistère on June 10, 2019.
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