Jacques Réda (24 January 1929 – 30 September 2024) was a French poet, jazz critic, and ''

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''. He was awarded the Prix Valery Larbaud in 1983, and was chief editor of the ''

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'' from 1987 to 1996. Réda died on 30 September 2024, at the age of 95.

Works

*''Amen'' (1968) *''Récitatif'' (1971) *''Les Ruines de Paris'' (1977) (''The Ruins of Paris'', trans. Mark Treharne, Reaktion Books, London, 1996) *''L’Improviste, une lecture du jazz'' (1980) *''L’Herbe des talus'' (1984) *''Celle qui vient à pas légers'' (1985) *''Jouer le jeu (L’Improviste II)'' (1985) *''Retour au calme'' (1989) (''Return to Calm'', trans. by Aaron Prevots, 2007, Host Publications, Inc.) *''Le Sens de la marche'' (1990) *''Aller aux mirabelles'', Gallimard (1991) (English translation: ''The Mirabelle Pickers'', trans. by Jennie Feldman, Anvil Press Poetry, London 2012)

References

External Links

* * * France, Peter (Ed.) (1995). ''The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French.'' Oxford: Clarendon Press. . * ''Into the Deep Street. Seven Modern French Poets. 1938–2008'', Edited and translated by Jennie Feldman and Stephen Romer, Anvil, London 2009. * ''The Mirabelle Pickers'', Translated by Jennie Feldman, Anvil, London 2012 1929 births 2024 deaths People from Lunéville Winners of the Prix Broquette-Gonin (literature) Prix Goncourt de la Poésie winners French music critics 20th-century French poets French male poets Jazz writers 20th-century French male writers French male non-fiction writers Nouvelle Revue Française editors {{france-writer-stub