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Jean-Loup Trassard
Jean-Loup Trassard in 2008 Jean-Loup Trassard (11 August 1933, Saint-Hilaire-du-Maine) is a French writer and photographer. He says of himself that he is a "writer of agriculture." Since 1961, he has been publishing short texts, narratives, photographs and texts in which he recounts his "territory" by Gallimard and Le Temps qu'il fait. The vision he offers of the traditional rural civilization which disappears irrevocably, is both ethnological and poetic. In 2012 he was awarded the grand prix of the Société des gens de lettres Magdeleine-Cluzel for the whole of his work. Biography His father, René, was an entrepreneur ("fermier de droits de place" - "farmer of rights of place"-) on the markets, which was a service to the communes organizing markets, in Brittany and in Normandy. He was a single child who went to the secular school of the village. Catechism, communions and masses were little appreciated. He lived a country childhood punctuated by agricultural work and which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Borel
Jacques Borel (17 December 1925 in Paris – 25 September 2002) was a French author best known for his 1965 novel ''L'Adoration'' (translated into English as ''The Bond''), which won the Prix Goncourt The Prix Goncourt (french: Le prix Goncourt, , ''The Goncourt Prize'') is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward o .... Bibliography * L'Adoration (1965) * Tata ou De l'Education (1967) * Le Retour (1970) * La Dépossession - Journal de Ligenère (1973) * Commentaires (1974) * Un Voyage ordinaire (1975) * Histoire de mes vieux habits (1979) * Poésie et nostalgie (1979) * Petite histoire de mes rêves (1981) * L'enfant voyeur (1987) * L'Attente. La Clôture (1987) * Sur les murs du temps (1989) * Commémorations (1990) * Le Déferlement (1993) * Le chocolat est-il une drogue? (1994) * Journal de la mémoire (1994) * Propos sur l'autobiographie (199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Rochelle
La Rochelle (, , ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''La Rochéle''; oc, La Rochèla ) is a city on the west coast of France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime department. With 75,735 inhabitants in 2017, La Rochelle is the most populated commune in the department and ranks fifth in the New Aquitaine region after Bordeaux, the regional capital, Limoges, Poitiers and Pau. Its inhabitants are called "les Rochelaises" and "les Rochelais". Situated on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean the city is connected to the Île de Ré by a bridge completed on 19 May 1988. Since the Middle-Ages the harbour has opened onto a protected strait, the Pertuis d'Antioche and is regarded as a "Door océane" or gateway to the ocean because of the presence of its three ports (fishing, trade and yachting). The city has a strong commercial tradition, having an active port from very early on in its history. La Rochelle underwent sustained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cognac (Charente)
Cognac (; Saintongese dialect, Saintongese: ''Cougnat''; oc, Conhac ) is a communes of France, commune in the Charente departments of France, department, southwestern France. Administratively, the commune of Cognac is a subprefectures in France, subprefecture of the Charente department. Name The name is believed to be formed from individual masculine name -Connius, Gallic name, and the suffix -acum, which would correspond to the "domain of Connius". History The town of Cognac was unknown before the ninth century, when it was fortified. During the Hundred Years' War, the town continually changed sides, according to the tides of war. In 1526, it lent its name to the War of the League of Cognac, the military alliance established by King Francis I of France to fight against the House of Habsburg. As a benefit of the War League of Cognac, King Francis I granted to the town of Cognac the commercial right to participate in the salt trade conducted along the river, from which regiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Macé
Gérard Macé (born Paris, 4 December 1946) is a French poet, essayist, translator and photographer. He published his first book ''Le jardin des langues'' in 1974 and since then has published nearly 50 books. His work is noted for its mixing of diverse genres. He has won many prizes including the Grand prix de poésie from the Academie Francaise for the entirety of his work. His poetry has been published in English translation by Bloodaxe Books Bloodaxe Books is a British publishing house specializing in poetry. History Bloodaxe Books was founded in 1978 in Newcastle upon Tyne by Neil Astley, who is still editor and managing director. Bloodaxe moved its editorial office to Northumbe .... References 20th-century French poets 21st-century French poets 21st-century French male writers French essayists French photographers Prix Roger Caillois recipients Prix France Culture winners Prix Valery Larbaud winners Writers from Paris 1946 births Living people 20th-ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Deguy
Michel Deguy (23 May 1930 – 16 February 2022) was a French poet and translator. Biography Deguy was born in Paris on 23 May 1930. He taught French literature at the Universite de Paris VIII (Saint-Denis) for many years. He also served as director of the French literary journal '' Po&sie'', and as editor of ''Les Temps Modernes'', the literary journal founded by Jean-Paul Sartre. As a translator, he translated Heidegger, Gongora, Sappho, Dante, and many others. He won the following prizes for his work: the Prix Mallarme, the Grand prix national de la poésie, the Prix Max Jacob, the Grand Prix de Poésie de l'Académie Française, the Prix Fénéon, and the Prix Joseph-Kessel. Deguy died in Paris on 16 February 2022, at the age of 91. The actress Marie-Armelle Deguy is his daughter. Works * ''Les Meurtrières'', Pierre Jean Oswald, 1959, 63 p. * ''Fragment du cadastre'', Gallimard, series "Le Chemin", 1960, 156 p. * ''Poèmes de la presqu’île'', Hermann, se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Thomas
Henri Thomas (December 7, 1912 – November 3, 1993) was a French writer and poet. Life Henri Thomas was born at Anglemont, Vosges, and grew up in the Alsace/Lorraine region of France. He moved to Paris to attend the prestigious Henri IV high school, working with the noted essayist Alain. However, his teaching and academic career faltered and he dedicated himself to writing full-time from 1935. He mixed with many influential intellectuals and writers in Paris in the 1930s and 1940s, most notably Gide and Paulhan. His first novel "The Coal Bucket" was published by Gallimard in 1940, as were the majority of his literary production (novels, short stories, journals, poems, essays, etc.) for the next forty odd years. In the 1940s he did his military service, got married, worked on a number of literary reviews and separated from his wife. In 1945, Thomas took a job with the BBC in London and lived and worked there for about ten years. Also during this period he met the woman who woul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Loreau
Max Loreau (7 June 1928, in Brussels – 7 January 1990) was a 20th-century Belgian philosopher, poet and art critic Biography Max Loreau is interested in the aesthetics of the Renaissance before publishing the complete catalog of works by Jean Dubuffet. He became close to the members of the Cobra movement. He devotes various articles to painters like Guillaume Corneille or Asger Jorn, before drafting a more comprehensive study of the logograms by Christian Dotremont in 1975. He also worked with Pierre Alechinsky who helped him to publish one of his last texts, ''L'Épreuve''. His philosophy takes root in phenomenology, from which he tries to rehabilitate the body. He starts from a genetic approach in which he tries to rethink the origin of the phenomenon as the genesis of the apparition. In ''Cri'' (Shout), he inaugurates a radical style from which he describes the effect of rupture, tearing and the void that emerges from the shout. This uncovering of the experience of languag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Alphant
Marianne Alphant (born 1945 in Paris) is a French writer and literary critic. A graduate from the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles in 1964 and agrégée de philosophie, Marianne Alphant worked for the daily ''Libération'' from 1983 to 1992. She directed the "Revues parlées" of the Centre Georges Pompidou from 1993 to 2010. Works * 1975: ''Grandes « O »'', Éditions Gallimard * 1978: ''Le Ciel à Bezons'', Gallimard. * 1983: ''L’Histoire enterrée'', * 1993: ''Monet : une vie dans le paysage'', Hazan. * 1994: ''Claude Monet en Norvège'', Hazan. * 1998: ''Pascal : tombeau pour un ordre'', Hachette Littératures. * 2001: ''Explications. Interviews with Pierre Guyotat'', éditions Léo Scheer. * 2007: ''Petite nuit'', P.O.L. * 2010: ''Claude Monet. Cathédrale(s) de Rouen'', éditions Point de vues. * 2013: ''Ces choses-là'' P.O.L. External links Marianne Alphanton France Culture Marianne Alphant, publicationson CAIRN Claude Monet. ''Une vie dans le paysage''o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludovic Janvier
Ludovic Janvier (24 October 1934, Paris – 18 January 2016, Ivry-sur-Seine) was a French novelist, poet, essayist, and short stories writer. He was the grandson of Haitian writer and politician Louis-Joseph Janvier. Work Novels *1968: ''La Baigneuse'', Éditions Gallimard *1974: ''Face'', Gallimard *1984: ''Naissance'', Gallimard *1988: ''Monstre, va'', Gallimard *2012: ''La Confession d'un bâtard du siècle'', Fayard Short stories *1993: ''Brèves d’amour'', Gallimard *1996: ''En mémoire du lit, Brèves d'amour 2'', Gallimard, Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle *2002: ''Encore un coup au cœur, Brèves d'amour 3'' (short stories), Gallimard *2002: ''Tue-le'', Gallimard *2016: ''Apparitions, Brèves d'amour 4'' (short stories), Gallimard Poetry *1987: ''La Mer à boire'', Gallimard *1992: ''Entre jour et sommeil'', Seghers *1998: ''Comme un œil'', dessins de Jean-Marie Queneau, Vézelay, Éditions de la Goulotte *2001: ''Doucement avec l'ange'', Gallimard *2003: ''Bon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Bourgeade
Pierre Bourgeade (7 November 1927 – 12 March 2009) was a French man of letters, playwright, poet, writer, director, journalist, literary critic and photographer. A descendant of Jean Racine, he was also the brother-in-law of the writer Paule Constant. Work Prizes * 1966: Prix Hermès-ESCP (''Les Immortelles'', Gallimard) * 1976: Prix du Syndicat de la Critique dramatique (''Palazzo Mentale'') * 1979: Prix Max Barthou de l'Académie française (''Une ville grise'', Gallimard) * 1983: Prix Mottart de l'Académie française + sélection Prix Goncourt (''Les Serpents'', Gallimard) * 1990: Prix du public et de la photographie Monte-Carlo (''Quartier nègre'') * 1998: Grand prix Paul-Féval de littérature populaire of the Société des Gens de Lettres (''Pitbull'', Gallimard) * 2009: Prix spécial du jury Sade (''Éloge des fétichistes'' () Selected bibliography Novels * 1968: ''La Rose rose'' (Gallimard "Le Chemin") * 1969: ''New York Party'' (Gallimard "Le Chemin") * 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Roudaut
Jean Roudaut (born 1 June 1929) is a French writer and professor of French literature who taught in the universities of Thessaloniki, Pisa, and Fribourg. He was born in Morlaix on 1 June 1929. Bibliography *1964: ''Michel Butor ou le livre futur'', proposition, Éditions Gallimard *1967: ''Trois villes orientées'', passage, Gallimard *1968: ''La Chambre'', parenthèse, Gallimard *1971: ''Poètes et grammairiens au XVIIIe'', anthologie, Gallimard *1974: ''Les Prisons'', novel, Gallimard *1978: ''Autre part'', paysages d’accompagnement, Gallimard *1978: ''Aître'', Orange Exp. *1980: ''Ce qui nous revient'', relais critique, Gallimard, Prix Broquette-Gonin of the Académie française *1988: ''Une ombre au tableau'', littérature et peinture, Ubacs *1989: ''Lieu de composition'', tournant, Gallimard *1990: ''Les Villes imaginaires dans la littérature française. Les douze portes'', Hatier *1991: ''Georges Perros'', Éditions Seghers, series "Poètes d’aujourd’hui" *1994: ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
