Bernard Noël (19 November 1930 – 13 April 2021) was a French writer and poet. He received the ''Grand Prix national de la poésie'' (National Grand Prize of Poetry) in 1992 and the ''Prix Robert Ganzo'' (Robert Ganzo Prize) in 2010.

Biography

Noël published his first book of

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

, ''Les Yeux Chimeres'', in 1955. This was followed by the

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''Extraits du corps'' (''Essence of the body'' or ''Extracts from the text'') in 1958. He then waited nine years before publishing his next book, ''La Face de silence'' (''The Face of Silence'', 1967), and eventually the controversial ''Le Château de Cène'' (''Castle supper'', 1969),

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that has been read as a protest against the war in Algeria. Noël is also known for his artists' books in collaboration with Gérard Serée. He also kept up a correspondence with the Italian poet Nella Nobili when she moved to Paris.

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