Armand Lanoux (24 October 1913 - 23 March 1983) was a French writer.

Biography

Lanoux was born in Paris. Early in life he had several jobs: he was a teacher, designer of candy boxes, bank employee, painter and journalist. He became an editor for the literary Artheme

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(1950), editor of the magazine ''À la page'' (1964), chaired the Committee on French television in 1958-1959, and was appointed Secretary General of Radio and Television International University. He was a member of a 13 member panel that chose ''Dors Mon Amour'' as the French Eurovision entry in 1958, where it finished 1st out of 10. He was a member of the France-USSR Association. He participated in drafting the ''Code des Usages''. He wrote in many genres: the novel, non-fiction, chronicles, drama, poetry (Apollinaire 1953 Chapman prize). From 1957 to 1964, he spent several months a year in

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. In 1963, he earned accolades in winning the

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for his novel "When the tide goes out." In 1970, he co-wrote with

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''Lys dans la vallée'', directed by Marcel Cravenne, based on the novel by

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. In 1980, he adapted the novel by Balzac ''La Peau de chagrin'' for television, directed by Michel Favart. He died in

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, aged 69.

Awards

* Prix du roman populiste, for ''La Nef des fous'' * Grand Prix du roman of

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, ''Les Lézards dans l'horloge'' *

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, ''Le Commandant Watrin'' *

, ''Quand la mer se retire''

Works

* ''La Canadienne assassinée'' (Colbert) 1943 : * ''Le Pont de la folie (Colbert) 1946 * ''L'Affaire de l'impasse Ronsin'' 1947 * ''La Nef des fous'' (Amiot-Dumont/Julliard) 1948, * ''L'Enfant en proie aux images'' (Labeyrie) 1949 * ''La Classe du matin'' (

) 1949 * ''Cet âge trop tendre'' (

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) 1951 * ''Colporteur'' (Seghers), 1953 Prix Apollinaire * ''Les Lézards dans l'horloge'' (Julliard), 1953 * ''Bonjour, Monsieur Zola'' (Amiot-Dumont/Hachette) 1954 * ''Le Photographe délirant'' (Seghers) 1956 * ''Le Commandant Watrin'' (Julliard), 1956 * ''Yododo'' (Fayard) 1957 * ''Le Rendez-vous de Bruges'' (Julliard) 1958 * ''Un jeune homme en habit'' 1958 * ''La Tulipe orageuse'' (Seghers) 1959 * ''La Tête tranchée : à quoi jouent les enfants du bourreau'' (Julliard) 1959 * ''1900, la bourgeoisie absolue'' (Hachette) 1961 * ''Quand la mer se retire'' (Julliard), 1963 * ''Le Berger des abeilles'' (Grasset) 1974 * ''La Corsetière prodigieuse'' (Jean-Pierre Kupczyk éditor) 1988 {{DEFAULTSORT:Lanoux, Armand Writers from Paris 1913 births 1983 deaths 20th-century French novelists French crime fiction writers Prix Goncourt winners Prix Interallié winners Prix Guillaume Apollinaire winners 20th-century French male writers