Marcel Thiry (13 March 1897 – 5 September 1977) was a French-speaking Belgian poet. During World War I, he and his brother Oscar served in the
Belgian Expeditionary Corps in Russia
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.
He was awarded the
Prix Valery Larbaud in 1976 for ''
Toi qui pâlis au nom de Vancouver'', a book of poems reminiscent of
Blaise Cendrars
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and
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Main works
Poetry
* ''Le cœur et les sens'' (1919)
* ''Toi qui pâlis au nom de Vancouver'' (1924), Prix Valery Larbaud
* ''Plongeantes Proues'' (1925)
* ''L'Enfant prodigue'' (1927)
* ''Statue de la fatigue''
Prix triennal de poésie 1934
* ''Marchands'' (1936)
* ''La Mer de la Tranquillité'' (1938)
* ''Âges'' (1950)
* ''Usine à penser des choses tristes'' (1957)
* ''Vie-Poésie'' (1961)
* ''Le Festin d'attente'' (1963)
* ''Le Jardin fixe'' (1969)
* ''Saison cinq et quatre proses'' (1969)
* ''L'Ego des neiges'' (1972)
* ''Songes et spélonques'' (1973)
* ''L'Encore'' (1975)
Novels and short stories
* ''Échec au temps'' (1945)
* ''Juste ou la Quête d'Hélène'' (1953)
* ''Comme si'' (1959)
* ''Nouvelles du Grand Possible'' (1960)
* ''Simul et autres cas'' (1963)
* ''Nondum jam non'' (1966)
Essays
* ''Voir grand'' (1921), essai politique
* ''Hitler n'est pas jeune'' (1940), pamphlet
* ''Lettre aux jeunes Wallons'' (1960), essai politique
* ''Le Poème et la langue'' (1967), essai littéraire
References
* France, Peter (Ed.) (1995). ''The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French.'' Oxford: Clarendon Press. .
External links
Marcel Thiry on wallonie-en-ligne.net
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Belgian poets in French
1897 births
1977 deaths
Walloon movement activists
Belgian military personnel of World War I
Writers from Charleroi
20th-century Belgian poets
Belgian male poets
Prix Valery Larbaud winners
20th-century Belgian male writers