Bernard Pingaud (12 October 1923 – 25 February 2020) was a French writer.
Biography
Pingaud studied at the Lycée Pasteur de Neuilly in
Neuilly-sur-Seine
Neuilly-sur-Seine (; literally 'Neuilly on Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is a commune in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in France, just west of Paris. Immediately adjacent to the city, the area is composed of mostly select residentia ...
and Lycée Henri IV in
Paris
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. In 1943, he enrolled at the
École normale supérieure
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* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
, and then became the debate secretary for the
National Assembly
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until 1974. He published his first novel in 1943, titled ''Mon beau navire''.
During the
Algerian War
The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence,( ar, الثورة الجزائرية '; '' ber, Tagrawla Tadzayrit''; french: Guerre d'Algérie or ') and sometimes in Algeria as the War of 1 November ...
, Pingaud was one of the people who signed the
Manifesto of the 121 The Manifesto of the 121 (french: Manifeste des 121, full title: ''Déclaration sur le droit à l’insoumission dans la guerre d’Algérie'' or ''Declaration on the right of insubordination in the Algerian War'') was an open letter signed by 121 i ...
. In 1968, he founded the Union des écrivains with
Jean-Pierre Faye
Jean-Pierre Faye (born 19 July 1925) is a French philosopher and writer of fiction and prose poetry.
Life and career
Faye was born in Paris. He was member of the editing committee of the avant-garde literary review ''Tel Quel'', and later of ''Ch ...
and
Michel Butor
Michel Butor (; 14 September 1926 – 24 August 2016) was a French poet, novelist, teacher, essayist, art critic and translator.
Life and work
Michel Marie François Butor was born in Mons-en-Barœul, a suburb of Lille, the third of seven childre ...
. After leading the union until 1973, Pingaud led the group Secrétariat à l'Action Culturelle of the
Socialist Party
Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of th ...
until 1979. In 1981,
Jack Lang appointed him as President of the
Commission de réflexion sur la politique du livre et de la lecture. In 1982, he published the "Pingaud-Barreau" report.
From 1983 to 1987, Pingaud served as a cultural adviser for the Embassy of France in
Cairo
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. From 1990 to 1993, he was President of the Maison des écrivains et de la littérature in Paris. He was one of the primary writers for the magazine ''L'Arc''.
Pingaud lived in
Collias
Collias (; oc, Colhaç) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Gard department
This is a list of the 351 communes of the Gard department of France.
The communes cooperate in the fol ...
from 1997 until his death. He was the father of Denis Pingaud.
Bernard Pingaud died on 25 February 2020 at the age of 96.
Works
Novels and stories
*''Mon beau navire'' (1946)
*''L’Amour triste'' (1950)
*''Le Prisonnier'' (1958)
*''La Scène primitive'' (1965)
*''La Voix de son maître'' (1973)
*''L’Imparfait'' (1973)
*''Adieu Kafka'' (1989)
*''Bartoldi le comédien'' (1996)
*''Tu n’es plus là'' (1998)
*''Au nom du frère'' (2002)
*''L’Andante inconnu'' (2003)
*''Mon roman et moi'' (2003)
*''L’Horloge de verre'' (2011)
*''Vous'' (2015)
Essays
*''Hollande'' (1954)
*''Mme de la Fayette'' (1959)
*''Tonia Cariffa'' (1961)
*''Inventaire'' (1965)
*''Entretiens'' (1966)
*''Comme un chemin en automne, Inventaire II'' (1979)
*''Le livre à son prix'' (1983)
*''L’Expérience romanesque'' (1983)
*''Les infortunes de la raison'' (1992)
*''Les Anneaux du manège. Écriture et littérature'' (1992)
*''Écrire'' (2000)
*''La Bonne Aventure'' (2007)
*''Une tâche sans fin (1940-2008)'' (2009)
*''L’Occupation des oisifs'' (2013)
References
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1923 births
2020 deaths
Writers from Paris
20th-century French writers
21st-century French writers