Emmanuel Bove (20 April 1898 – 19 July 1945) was a French writer, who also published under the pseudonyms of Pierre Dugast and Jean Vallois.

Life and career

Emmanuel Bove was born Emmanuel Bobovnikoff on 20 April 1898 in

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to a

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father who migrated from

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and a

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mother. He studied at the Ecole alsacienne and the lycée Calvin de Genève. At the age of 14, he decided to become a novelist. In 1915, he was sent to

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, where he completed his education. Returning to Paris in 1916, he found himself in a precarious situation. In 1921, he married Suzanne Vallois and moved to the suburbs of

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. There he began his writing career, publishing numerous popular novels under the pseudonym Jean Vallois. He returned to Paris in 1922 and worked as a journalist. His work came to the attention of

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, who helped him publish his first novel under his own name, ''Mes amis'' (''My Friends'') in 1924. The novel became a success and he consistently published until the

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, winning the prix Figuière in 1928. In 1940, he was mobilized as a laborer and hoped to be able to flee to

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. He was unable to publish during the

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. He managed to escape to

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in 1942, where he wrote his three final novels: ''le Piège'', ''Départ dans la nuit'' and ''Non-lieu''. He returned to Paris in poor health from diseases caught during his

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n exile. He died in Paris on July 19, 1945 from

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and

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Works

*''Mes amis'', novel 1924 *''Le Crime d'une nuit'', novella 1926 *''Armand'', novel 1927 *''Bécon-les-Bruyères'', novel, 1927 *''La Coalition'', novel 1927 *''La Mort de Dinah'', novel 1928 *''Coeurs et Visages'', novel 1928 *''L'Amour de Pierre Neuhart'', novel 1928 *''Une illusion'', novella 1928/1929 *''Monsieur Thorpe (Les deux masques)'', 1930 *''Journal – écrit en hiver'', novel 1931 *''Un Raskolnikoff'', novella 1932 *''Un célibataire'', novel 1932 *''Le Meurtre de Suzy Pommier'', crime novel 1933 *''Le Beau-fils'', novel 1934 *''Le Pressentiment'', 1935 (adapted into the film ''

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'' in 2006) *''Adieu Fombonne'', novel 1937 *''La Dernière Nuit'', novel 1939 *''Le Piège'', novel 1945 *''Départ dans la nuit'', novel 1945 *''Non-lieu'', novel 1946 *''Mémoires d'un homme singulier'', 1987

Works Available in English

* ''My Friends'', trans. Janet Louth; Manchester: Carcanet, 1986. * ''Armand'', trans. Janet Louth; Manchester ; New York, NY : Carcanet, 1987. * ''Winter's Journal'', trans. Nathalie Favre-Gilly; Evanston, Ill. : Marlboro Press/Northwestern, 1998. * ''The Murder of Suzy Pommier'', trans. Warre B. Wells. Boston : Little, Brown, 1934. * ''The Stepson'', trans. Nathalie Favre-Gilly; Marlboro, Vt. : Marlboro Press, 1991. * ''Quicksand'', trans. Dominic Di Bernardi; Marlboro, Vt. : Marlboro Press, 1993. * ''Night Departure; and No Place'', trans. Carol Volk; New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995. * ''A Singular Man'', trans. Dominic Di Bernardi; Marlobor, Vt. : Marlboro Press, 1993. * ''A Raskolnikoff'', trans. Mitchell Abidor; Red Dust, 2015. * ''Henri Duchemin and His Shadows'', trans. Alyson Waters; New York Review of Books Classics, 2015.

References

External links

Website devoted to Bove
(in French) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bove, Emmanuel 1945 deaths 1898 births 20th-century French novelists 20th-century French non-fiction writers 20th-century French male writers People of French Algeria Novelists from Paris 20th-century French Jews French World War II forced labourers