Jean-Jacques Gautier (4 November 1908,
Essômes-sur-Marne
Essômes-sur-Marne (, literally ''Essômes on Marne'') is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Population
centre, Abbot.
See also
* Communes of the Aisne department
The following is a list of t ...
,
Aisne
Aisne ( , ; ; pcd, Ainne) is a French department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. It is named after the river Aisne. In 2019, it had a population of 531,345.[theatre critic
Theatre criticism is a genre of arts criticism, and the act of writing or speaking about the performing arts such as a play or opera.
Theatre criticism is distinct from drama criticism, as the latter is a division of literary criticism whereas the ...]
, novelist and essayist. A Norman via his father (a pharmacist in
Dieppe
Dieppe (; Norman: ''Dgieppe'') is a coastal commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France.
Dieppe is a seaport on the English Channel at the mouth of the river Arques. A regular ferry service runs to Newha ...
) and a
champenois via his mother, he was elected a member of the
Académie française
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...
in 1972.
Works
* ''L'Oreille'', 1946
* ''
Histoire d'un fait divers'',
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 ...
, 1946
* ''Les Assassins d'eau douce'', 1947
* ''Le Puits aux trois vérités'', 1949
* ''La Demoiselle du Pont-aux-Ânes'', 1950
* ''Paris sur scène'', illustrations de
Sennep, 1951
* ''Nativité'', 1952
* ''M'auriez-vous condamné ?'' 1952
* ''Maria-la-Belle'', 1954
* ''C'est tout à fait moi'', 1956
* ''Vous aurez de mes nouvelles'', 1957
* ''Si tu ne m'aimes je t'aime'', 1960
* ''C'est pas d'jeu !'' 1962
* ''Deux Fauteuils d'orchestre'', 1962
* ''La Comédie française'', 1964
* ''Un Homme fait'', 1965
* ''La Chambre du fond'', 1970
* ''Une Femme prisonnière'', 1970
* ''Théâtre d'aujourd'hui, dix ans de critique dramatique, et des Entretiens avec Moussa Abadi sur le théâtre et la critique'', illustrations de Sennep, 1972
* ''Cher Untel'', 1974
* ''Je vais tout vous dire'', 1976
* ''Âme qui vive'', 1978
* ''Face, trois quarts, profil'', 1980
* ''Dominique'', 1981
* ''Une Amitié tenace'', 1982
* ''Le Temps d'un sillage'', 1985
* ''Mon dernier livre n'aura pas de fin'', préface de
Jean-Louis Curtis
Jean-Louis Curtis (22 May 1917 – 11 November 1995), pseudonym of Albert Laffitte, was a French novelist best known for his second novel '' The Forests of the Night'' (French: ''Les Forêts de la nuit''), which won France's highest literary award ...
, 1988
* ''Il faut que je parle à quelqu'un'', 2003
External links
Académie française
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1908 births
1986 deaths
People from Aisne
Writers from Hauts-de-France
French theatre critics
20th-century French novelists
French male essayists
French male novelists
20th-century French essayists
20th-century French male writers
Members of the Académie Française
Prix Goncourt winners
Burials at the Cimetière parisien de Bagneux