Jean Fayard (1902 in

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– 1978) was a French writer and journalist, winner of the

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in 1931. Fayard was also director of the Editions

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. Jean Fayard was the grandson of the founder of Fayard. At the death of his father, Joseph Artheme Fayard, 1936, he took the helm of the publishing family. His papers are held at Institut Mémoires de l'édition contemporaine, 25, ,

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Work

* ''Deux ans à Oxford?'' Impr. F. Paillart, 1924 * ''Dans le monde où l'on s'abuse'', Arthème Fayard, 1925 * ''Journal d'un colonel'', Éditions de la nouvelle revue française, 1925 * ''Trois quarts de monde: roman'', Artheme Fayard, 1926 * ''Oxford et Margaret'', A. Fayard, 1928 * ''Madeleine et Madeleine'', Gallimard, 1928 * ''Bruxelles'',

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, 1928 * ''Mal d'amour'', Éditions de l'imprimerie nationale, 1931 * ''Liebesleid: Roman'', R. Piper, 1933 * ''La féérie de la rue: roman'', Henri Duvernois, Jean Fayard, B. Grasset, 1937 * ''Mes Maitresses'', A. Fayard, 1941 * ''Roman'', A. Fayard, 1945 * ''L'Allemagne sous le Croix de Lorraine'', "Les Oeuvres Libras", 1945 * ''La guerre intérieure'', Stock, 1974, * ''Je m'éloigne: roman'', Plon, 1977,

English Translations

* ''Oxford & Margaret'': Translated from the French by

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, Jarrolds, 1925 * ''Desire'', Translated by Warre Bradley Wells, The Century Co., 1932

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Bruxelles / par Jean Fayard
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fayard, Jean 1902 births 1978 deaths Writers from Paris Prix Goncourt winners 20th-century French novelists French male novelists 20th-century French male writers