André Brincourt (8 November 1920,

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then

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– 22 March 2016''Décès de l'écrivain André Brincourt''
dépêche AFP du 22 mars 2016. aged 95) was a French writer and journalist.

Biography

A former resistant, volunteer at eighteen during the Second World War (prisoner then escaped, he engaged in the

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movement of the region of Nice,) André Brincourt directed the cultural pages, then the literary supplement of the newspaper ''

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''. He was also a literary journalist on television and had television interviews with

André Malraux Georges André Malraux ( , ; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel ''La Condition Humaine'' (Man's Fate) (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by P ...

, of which he was a friend. Alongside his work as a journalist, he wrote about twenty books in a wide variety of literary genres, ranging from poetry to novel. In his last years, he seemed to have a preference for the fragment and the aphorism as evidenced by his latest publications. A member of the

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from 1984 to 2011,''Frédéric Beigbeder et Jérôme Garcin, nouveaux membres du jury Renaudot ''
in ''

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'' from 11 March 2011. following his resignation he was awarded the

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in 1999 for all his work.

Works

*1946: ''Satan et la Poésie'', essay, Grasset *1948: ''Désarroi de l'écriture'', essay, Vigneau *1950: ''Le Vert Paradis'', novel,

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– prix du Jeune Roman *1952: ''La Farandole'', novel, La Table Ronde – prix Henri-Dumarest 1953 of the Académie française. *1956: ''Les Œuvres et les Lumières'', essay, La Table Ronde –

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*1957: ''Les Yeux clos'', novel, La Table Ronde *1959: ''La Télévision et ses promesses'', essay, La Table Ronde *1965: ''La Télévision'', notes et maximes, Hachette *1965: ''Malraux ou le temps du silence'', essay, La Table Ronde *1973: ''Noir sur blanc'', essai,

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*1979: ''Le Musée imaginaire de la littérature du XXe'', Éditions Retz *1986: ''Malraux, le malentendu'', essay, Grasset – prix Georges-Dupau 1987 of the Académie française. *1988: ''Les Yeux clos'', noel, Grasset *1990: ''La Parole dérobée'', noel, Grasset *1995: ''Messagers de la nuit : Roger Martin du Gard, Saint-John Perse, André Malraux '', essay, Grasset – Prix de la Critique de l'Académie française. *1996: ''Secrètes Araignées'', essay, Grasset *1997: ''Langue française, terre d'accueil'', essay, éditions du Rocher – vermeil medal of the

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.André Brincourt
on the site of the

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. *1999: ''Vive les mouches'', essay, Grasset *2000: ''Le Bonheur de rompre'', novel, Grasset *2001: ''Le Paradis désenchanté'', éditions du Rocher *2003: ''Tête-de-loup'', essay, Grasset *2005: ''La Mer, l'Amour et la Mort'', poetry, Privat *2006 ''Les Conquérants d'eux-mêmes'', essay, Grasset *2007: ''Insomnies'', pensées, Grasset *2009: ''Vienne le vent'', poetry, Melis éditions *2010: ''Littératures d’outre-tombe'', essay, Grasset

Prizes and distinctions

*1945:

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and

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. *1956:

Prix Sainte-Beuve The Prix Sainte-Beuve, established in 1946, is a French literary prize awarded each year to a writer in the categories "novels" (or "poetry") and "essays" (or "critics"); it is named after the writer Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve. The founding jury ...

*1997: Grande médaille de la francophonie *1999:

for all his work

References

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