Emmanuel Roblès (4 May 1914 in Oran, French Algeria – 22 February 1995 in Boulogne, Hauts-de-Seine) was a French author. He was elected a member of the

Académie Goncourt The Société littéraire des Goncourt (Goncourt Literary Society), usually called the Académie Goncourt (Goncourt Academy), is a French literary organisation based in Paris. It was founded in 1900 by the French writer and publisher Edmond de Go ...

in 1973. He was one of many influential "

pied-noir The ''Pieds-Noirs'' (; ; ''Pied-Noir''), are the people of French and other European descent who were born in Algeria during the period of French rule from 1830 to 1962; the vast majority of whom departed for mainland France as soon as Alger ...

" of his time. The literary award Prix Emmanuel Roblès has been established in his honour in 1990.

Selected bibliography

*''La Vallée du paradis'' (1940) *''Travail d'homme'' (1942) *''La Marie des quatres vents'' (1942), short story *''Nuits sur le monde'' (1944), short stories *''L'Action'' (1946) *''Les Hauteurs de la ville'' (1948), winner of the

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*''Montserrat'' (1948), play *''La Mort en face'' (1951), short stories *''Cela s'appelle l'aurore'' (1952) *''Federica'' (1954) *''Les Couteaux'' (1956), novel about Mexico *''L'Homme d'Avril'' (1959), short stories (title story about Japan) *''Le Vésuve'' (1961) *''Jeunes saisons'' (1961), autobiography *''La Remontée du fleuve'' (1962) *''La Croisière'' (1968) *''Un Printemps d'Italie'' (1970) *''L'Ombre et la rive'' (1972), short stories *''Saison violente'' (1974) *''Un Amour sans fin'' (1976) *''Les Sirènes'' (1977) *''L'Arbre invisible'' (1979) *''Venise en hiver'' (1981) *''La chasse à la licorne'' (1985) *''Norma, ou, L'Exil infini'' (1988) *''Albert Camus et la trêve civile'' (1988), criticism *''Les Rives du fleuve bleu'' (1990), short stories *''Cristal des jours'' (1990), poetry *''L'Herbe des ruines'' (1992) *''Erica'' (1994), short stories *''Camus, frère de soleil'' (1995), biography

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