Jean-Paul Frédéric Tristan Baron (11 June 1931 – 2 March 2022) was a French writer.

Biography

Tristan was born in Sedan,

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, France, on 11 June 1931. He was sent on a mission to

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, North Vietnam,

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and China (1964–1986). In 2000, he explained his work in a series of interviews with the critic Jean-Luc Moreau. In 1952, he participated in research conducted by Joel Picton. From 1983 to 2001 he was professor of early Christian and Renaissance iconography at ICART (Paris). Tristan is one of the authors named in Jean-Luc Moreau's 1992 manifesto and anthology ''La Nouvelle Fiction'', alongside

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, Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, François Coupry, Jean Levy, Patrick Carré, and Marc Petit. All seven founding members of this literary movement share a literary heritage of German Romanticism, the English

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, speculative philosophy,

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, spiritualism and the oriental tale to explore Romantic themes such as the soul, fate, the world of dreams, myth and invisible realms. All of his archives (manuscripts, books published and translated, audio and visual documentation, reviews) are available at

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. Tristan was married to Marie-France Tristan, a specialist on poet Giambattista Marino. He died in France, on 2 March 2022, at the age of 90.Le romancier et poète Frédérick Tristan, lauréat du prix Goncourt 1983, est mort à l'âge de 90 ans

Awards

* 1983 Prix Goncourt, for ''Les Égarés'' * 2000 Grand Prize for lifetime achievement

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Works

* ''Les Égarés'', éditions Fayard (Paris) * ''Naissance d'un spectre'', éditions Fayard (Paris) * ''Le Singe égal du ciel'', éditions Fayard (Paris) * ''La Geste serpentine'', éditions Fayard (Paris) * ''Balthasar Kober'', éditions Fayard (Paris) * ''Stéphanie Phanistée'', éditions Fayard (Paris) * ''Dieu'', éditions Fayard (Paris) * ''l'Univers et Madame Berthe'', éditions Fayard (Paris) * ''Les Obsèques prodigieuses d'Abraham Radjec'', éditions Fayard (Paris) * ''Tao le haut voyage'', éditions Fayard (Paris) * ''L'Énigme du Vatican'', éditions Fayard (Paris) * ''Monsieur l'Enfant et le cercle des bavards'', éditions Fayard (Paris) * ''Dernières nouvelles de l'Au-delà'', éditions Fayard (Paris) * ''Le Chaudron chinois'', éditions Fayard (Paris) * ''Christos, enquête sur l'impossible'', éditions Fayard (Paris) * ''L'Infini singulier'' (qui décrit l’enfance de Adrien Salvat, personnage récurrent de l’auteur)

Poetry

* ''L’Ostiaque'' * ''L’Anthrope, 1951-1953'' (Nouveau Commerce) * ''Passage de l'ombre'' (Recherches graphiques) * ''Encres et écritures'' (2010). La Finestra

Essays

* ''Les Premières Images chrétiennes: du symbole à l'icône'' * ''Les Sociétés secrètes chinoises'' * ''Le Monde à l'envers'', l'Œil d'Hermès'' * ''Anagramme du vide'' * ''Don Juan le révolté''

External links

"Author's website"

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tristan, Frederick 1931 births 2022 deaths 20th-century French male writers 20th-century French poets 21st-century French non-fiction writers 20th-century French novelists 21st-century French novelists People from Sedan, Ardennes Prix Goncourt winners