Jeanne Champion (born 25 June 1931, near Lons-le-Saunier) is a French painter and historical novelist.

Biography

Jeanne Champion, born in a peasant environment, is largely self-taught.John Flower: "Reflections on life, death, and history: Jeanne Champion's Le Bunker", dans ''The Liberation of France: Image and Event'' 1995, pages 335-346.
/ref> An artist-painter since 1956, she has produced many works in her two fields of activity. In painting, often unsatisfied, she destroyed many of her creations but she left some 200 paintings and a good number of engravings.

Honours

A writer since 1961, Champion was awarded the

Prix Goncourt de la biographie 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 ...

in 1984 for her fictionalized biography of

Suzanne Valadon Suzanne Valadon (23 September 18657 April 1938) was a French painter who was born Marie-Clémentine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France. In 1894, Valadon became the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des ...

, translated into several languages. She was also given the Grand Prix du roman de la Société des gens de lettres (1980) for her novel ''Les frères Montaurian'', the Prix de l'Événement du jeudi (1986) for ''le Bunker'' and the Prix des écrivains croyants (1990) for her documentary book ''Mémoires en exil''. In 1982, she was awarded the Prix Alice-Louis Bartoux of the Académie française. She was elevated to the rank of officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2001.

Works

Literature

* 1967: ''Le Cri'', novel,

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. * 1968: ''Les Miroirs jumeaux'', novel, Julliard. * 1969: ''X.'', novel, Bourgois. * 1969: ''Les Enfants des Roumis'', éd. d'Halluin et Cie * 1973: ''Vautour-en-Privilège'', novel, ed. Calmann-Lévy * 1974: ''Ma Fille Marie-Hélène Charles Quint'', ed. Calmann-Lévy * 1975: ''Dans les jardins d'Esther'', novel, ed. Calmann-Lévy * 1977: ''Les Gisants'' ed. Calmann-Lévy * 1979: ''Les frères Montaurian'', novel,

Éditions Grasset The Grasset Editions () is a French publishing house founded in 1907 by (1881–1955). History Founder In 1913, Bernard Grasset publishes the first volume of '' À la recherche du temps perdu'', by Marcel Proust, '' Du côté de chez Swann'' ...

* 1981: ''La Passion selon Martial Montaurian'', novel, éd. Grasset * 1982: ''L'Amour capital'', novel, Calmann-Lévy * 1984: ''Suzanne Valadon'', fictionalized biography, * 1985: ''Le Bunker'', Calmann-Lévy * 1986: ''Bette Davis'', Lherminier. * 1987: ''La Hurlevent'', fictionalized biography, Presses de la Renaissance. * 1989: ''Memoires en exil'', documentary,

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. * 1996: ''La Maison Germanicus'', Grasset. * 1999: ''L'Amour à perpétuité'', novel, Grasset. * 2001: ''Lambeaux de mémoire : Enfance'', éd. Plon * 2002: ''J'hallucine'', éd. Mille et une nuits. * 2004: ''Autoportrait d'une charogne: Lambeaux de mémoire II'', éd. Plon * 2005: ''Le terrible'', fictionalized biography of Ivan the Terrible, éd. Fayard * 2006: ''Le Fils du silence'', éd. Fayard. * 2007: ''Ils ne savent plus dire "Je t'aime"'', éd. Fayard * 2008: ''L'ombre de Judas'', éd. Fayard * 2009: ''Là où tu n'es plus'', novel, éd. Fayard * 2011: ''Le prince de la mélancolie'', novel Charles d'Orléans, éd. Pierre-Guillaume de Roux Éditions

Painting

*2002: ''Idoles, suivi de Avant-dernière toiles'' (with

Yann Queffélec Yann Queffélec (born 4 September 1949 in Paris) is a French author who won the Prix Goncourt in 1985 for his novel '' Les Noces barbares'', translated into English as '' The Wedding''. He is the former husband of the late pianist Brigitte Engere ...

), Cercle d'Art.

Bibliography

Alain Bosquet Alain Bosquet, born Anatoliy Bisk (russian: Анато́лий Биск) (28 March 1919 – 17 March 1998), was a French poet. Life In 1925, his family moved to Brussels and he studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, then at the Sorbonn ...

, ''Les envoûtements de Jeanne Champion'' * Sarah Charlotte Rouncefield, ''Theme and Form in the Works of Jeanne Champion'', University of Exeter, 1994

References

External links

Site de l'artiste

Jeanne Champion
on the site of the Académie française

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