Franck André Jamme (21 November 1947 – 1 October 2020) was a French poet.
Biography
He specialized in the tribal arts of contemporary
India
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,
La Pléiade
La Pléiade () was a group of 16th-century French Renaissance poets whose principal members were Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay and Jean-Antoine de Baïf. The name was a reference to another literary group, the original Alexandrian Pleia ...
, and
René Char
René Émile Char (; 14 June 1907 – 19 February 1988) was a French poet and member of the French Resistance.
Biography
Char was born in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in the Vaucluse department of France, the youngest of the four children of Emile ...
. Since 1981, he has published twelve collections containing poems and fragments. He was also a translator of, among others,
Lokenath Bhattacharya and Udayan Vajpeyi.
For his works, Jamme received the
Grand prix de poésie de la SGDL The grand prix de poésie de la SGDL is a French literary award created by the Société des gens de lettres in 1983 in order to reward an author for the whole of his work. This award is given to the winner during the spring session of the company. ...
in 2005. The work ''Forêt sensible'' was based on Jamme's ''Nouveaux exercices'' and ''Au secret'', the latter of which was written specifically for the company ''Souffleurs, commandos poétiques''.
Franck André Jamme died on 1 October 2020 at the age of 72.
Bibliography
*''L'Ombre des biens à venir'' (1981)
*''Absence de résidence et pratique du songe'' (1985)
*''La Récitation de l'oubli'' (1986)
*''Un diamant sans étonnement'' (1998)
*''Nouveaux exercices'' (2002)
*''Extraits de la vie des scarabées'' (2004)
*''De la Distraction'' (2005)
*''Mantra des réalités invisibles et des doigts troués de la vue'' (2006)
*''Au secret'' (2010)
*''Tantra Song: Tantric Painting from Rajashtan'' (editor) (2011)
References
1947 births
2020 deaths
French poets
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