Guy Mazeline (12 April 1900

Le Havre Le Havre (, ; nrf, Lé Hâvre ) is a port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the right bank of the estuary of the river Seine on the Channel southwest of the Pays de Caux, very ...

– 25 May 1996 Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French writer, winner of the

prix Goncourt The Prix Goncourt (french: Le prix Goncourt, , ''The Goncourt Prize'') is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward o ...

in 1932 for his novel ''Les Loups'', surprisingly winning against ''

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'' by

Louis-Ferdinand Céline Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline ( , ) was a French novelist, polemicist and physician. His first novel ''Journey to the End of the Night'' (1932) won the '' Pr ...

. He is the son of Alphonse Mazeline and Elise Hélène Suzanne Jaquereau. He married on 18 December 1924, to Claire Louise Dors (7 June 1901

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Works

* ''Piège du démon'', 1927 * ''Porte close'', 1928 * ''Un royaume près de la mer'', 1931 * ''Les Loups'', 1932 * ''Le Capitaine Durban'', 1934 * ''Le Délire'', 1935 * ''Les Îles du matin, 1936 * ''Bêtafeu'', 1937 * ''Le Panier flottant'', 1938 * ''Scènes de la vie hitlérienne'', 1938 * ''Pied d'alouette'', 1941 * ''La Femme donnée en gages'', 1943 * ''Tony l'accordeur'', 1943 * ''Un dernier coup de griffe'', 1944 * ''Le Souffle de l'été'', 1946 * ''Valfort'', 1951 * ''Chrétienne compagnie'', 1958 * ''Un amour d'Italie'', 1967

English Translations

* ''The wolves''; translated from the French by Eric Sutton. New York, The Macmillan company, 1934.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mazeline, Guy 1900 births 1996 deaths Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery Prix Goncourt winners Writers from Le Havre 20th-century French novelists French male novelists 20th-century French male writers