Geneviève Fauconnier ( Barbezieux, 3 January 1886 –

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, 11 December 1969) was a French novelist who lived in the south of the

Charente Charente (; Saintongese: ''Chérente''; oc, Charanta ) is a department in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, south western France. It is named after the river Charente, the most important and longest river in the department, an ...

'' département'' (France). She was one of the most sensitive members of the so-called

Groupe de Barbezieux The ''Groupe de Barbezieux'' (Barbezieux Group) were French writers from three Charentais families, Fauconnier, Boutelleau and Delamain, who were childhood friends in the town of Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire, Barbezieux, in the Charente ''Departments of ...

. Her brother,

Henri Fauconnier Henri Fauconnier (26 February 1879 – 14 April 1973) was a French writer, known mainly for his novel ''Malaisie'', which won the Prix Goncourt in 1930. He was part of the Groupe de Barbezieux. Family Fauconnier was born at the Villa Muss ...

( Prix Goncourt in 1930) and

Jacques Chardonne Jacques Chardonne (born ''Jacques Boutelleau''; 2 January 1884, in Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire, Charente – 29 May 1968, in La Frette-sur-Seine) is the pseudonym of French writer Jacques Boutelleau. He was a member of the so-called Groupe de Barbe ...

( Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1932) were some of the most famous writers of this group. She won the Prix Femina in 1933 with her novel ''

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''.

Harold Strauss Harold Strauss (1907–1975) was editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf Inc. from 1942 until 1966. He is credited as introducing postwar Japanese fiction to American audiences with Jirō Osaragi's ''Homecoming'' and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's '' Some Pr ...

's 1937 review of ''Claude'' in '' The New York Times'' featured a large portrait of Fauconnier. ''Time'' magazine also reviewed ''Claude'' in 1937.

Complete work

* ''Les trois petits enfants bleus'', 1927 * ''Micheline à bord du Nibong'', 1932 (written in 1910) * ''

'', 1933 ( Prix Femina) * ''Les étangs de la Double'', 1935 * ''Pastorale'', 1942 * ''Christine et les Micocouliers'', 1948 * ''Les enfances du Christ'', 1956 * ''Évocations'', 1960

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Geneviève Fauconnier (in French)
1886 births 1969 deaths People from Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire Writers from Nouvelle-Aquitaine French women novelists 20th-century French novelists 20th-century French women writers Prix Femina winners {{France-novelist-19thC-stub