Eugène Guillevic (

Carnac Carnac (; , ) is a commune beside the Gulf of Morbihan on the south coast of Brittany in the Morbihan department in north-western France. Its inhabitants are called ''Carnacois'' in French. Carnac is renowned for the Carnac stones – on ...

Morbihan The Morbihan ( , ; ) is a departments of France, department in the administrative region of Brittany (administrative region), Brittany, situated in the northwest of France. It is named after the Gulf of Morbihan, Morbihan (''small sea'' in Breton ...

, France, August 5, 1907

– March 19, 1997 Paris) () was a French

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

. Professionally, he went by the single name ''Guillevic''.

Life

He was born in the rocky landscape and marine environment of Brittany. His father, a sailor, was a policeman and took him to Jeumont ( Nord) in 1909, Saint-Jean-Brévelay (

) in 1912, and Ferrette (

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) in 1919. After a BA in mathematics, he was placed by the exams of 1926, in the Administration of Registration (Alsace, Ardennes). Appointed in 1935 to Paris as senior editor at the Directorate General at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, he was assigned in 1942 to control the economy. He was from 1945 to 1947 in the Cabinets of Ministers Francis Billoux (National Economy) and Charles Tillon (Reconstruction). In 1947 after the ouster of Communist ministers, he returned to the Inspector General of Economics, where his work included studies of the economy and planning, until his retirement in 1967. He was a pre-war friend of Jean Follain, who introduced him to the group Sagesse; he later belonged to the School of Rochefort. He was a practicing Catholic for about thirty years. He became a communist sympathizer during the

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, and in 1942 joined the Communist Party when he joined with

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, and participated in the publications of the underground press (

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). His poetry is concise, straightforward as rock, rough and generous, but still suggestive. His poetry is also characterized by its rejection of metaphors, in that he prefers comparisons which he considered less misleading.

Awards

* 1976 Grand Award for Poetry of the

Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

* 1984 Grand National Prize for Poetry * 1988

Prix Goncourt The 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 of only 10 euros, but resul ...

for poetry

Works translated to English

* ''Geometries.'' Richard Sieburth (translator), Ugly Duckling Press, 2010. * ''The Sea & Other Poems''. Patricia Terry (Translator), Black Widow Press/Commonwealth Books, Inc., July 15, 2007, *''Carnac.'' John Montague (Translator), Bloodaxe Books December 2000, *''Selected Poems.'' Denise Levertov (Translator), 1968, New Directions NDP279, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 74-88726

French works

* ' (1923–1938, work documents published in 1994) * ''Requiem'' (1938, six poems not published by the author) * , Gallimard, Paris, 1942. * ', with a lithography by Jean Dubuffet, Le Calligraphe, Paris 1946 * ''Fractures'', Éditions de Minuit, collection , Paris 1947 * ', Gallimard, Paris, 1947. * , Gallimard, Paris, 1949. * ', Seghers, Paris, 1952; edition augmented by ''Envie de vivre'', Seghers, Paris, 1985. * ''31 sonnets'', preface by Aragon, Gallimard, Paris, 1954 (collection the author had not wanted re-issued) * ''Carnac'', Gallimard, Paris, 1961. * ', Gallimard, Paris, 1963. * ', Gallimard, Paris, 1966. * ', Gallimard, Paris, 1967. * ', Gallimard, Paris, 1969. * ', Gallimard, Paris, 1970. * ', Editeurs français réunis, Paris, 1970. * , Gallimard, Paris, 1973. * , Gallimard, Paris, 1977. * , Gallimard, Paris, 1979. * , Gallimard, Paris, 1980. * , Gallimard, Paris, 1981. * , Les Bibliophiles de France, 1982 * , Gallimard, Paris, 1983 (). * , Trois-Rivières, 1986 (). * , Gallimard, Paris, 1987 (). * , Gallimard, Paris, 1987 (). * , Rouen, 1987 * , Gallimard, Paris, 1989 (). * , Gallimard, Paris, 1990 (). * ''Impacts'', Deyrolle Editeur, Cognac, 1990 (). * ', Gallimard, Paris, 1993 (). * ', Gallimard, Paris, 1996 (). * ', Fischbacher, Paris, 2001 (posthumous edition by Lucie Albertini-Guillevic and Jérôme Pellissier). () * ', Gallimard, Paris, 2002. * ', Gallimard, Paris, 2004 () * ', Seghers Jeunesse, 2004, () * ', Gallimard, Paris, 2007 (posthumous edition by Lucie Albertini-Guillevic), 810 p. () * ', Seghers Jeunesse, 2008 ()

Republished paperback editions

* ', preface by Jacques Borel, 1968. * ', 1977. * '. * ', 1997 (). * '. * ', 2007.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Guillevic, Eugene 1907 births 1997 deaths People from Carnac Writers from Brittany Former Roman Catholics French communists Prix Goncourt de la Poésie winners Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath laureates 20th-century French poets French male poets