Jean-Claude Bourlès (22 November 1937,

Rennes Rennes (; ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in Northwestern France at the confluence of the rivers Ille and Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the Brittany (administrative region), Brittany Regions of F ...

) is a French writer-traveller from Brittany. Passionate about the

camino de Santiago The Camino de Santiago (, ; ), or the Way of St. James in English, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the apostle James in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tra ...

, he wrote three books on the subject, relating, for the first two, his own experience as a pilgrim of the path of paths, the third being a sort of collection of testimonies on the motivations of the many pilgrims he met. As a writer, he participated in many magazines such as ''Grands Reportages'', ''Terre Sauvage'', ''Pays de Bretagne''. His work ''Chronique du bel été'' earned him the Prix Louis-Guilloux in 1983.

Bibliography

* 1976: ''Les vents noirs'', poems, Millas Martin * 1978: ''Cantilènes'', poems, Chambelland * 1981: ''Fleurs vagabondes'', poems, Michelle Brouta * 1981: ''Sillages d'hiver'', poems, illustrations by Bernard Louedin, Éditions du Coq * 1982: ''Chronique du bel été'', Picollec, Prix Louis-Guilloux * 1995: ''Retour à Conques'', * 1995: ''Sur les chemins de Compostelle'', Payot * 1997: ''Louis Guilloux, les maisons d'encre'', photographs by Jean Hervoche, Christian Pirot * 1998: ''Passants de Compostelle'', Payot * 1998: ''Le grand chemin de Compostelle'', Payot, Prix du Roman d'aventure * 1999: ''Une Bretagne intérieure'',

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* 2001: ''Pèlerin sans église'', * 2002: ''Guillaume Manier : un paysan picard à St-Jacques de Compostelle'', Payot, 2002 * 2003: ''Escapades avec Don Quichotte'', Payot * 2005: ''Ma vie avec Sancho Pança'', Payot * 2012: ''Le frisson des départs'' (in collaboration with Yvon Boëlle), Salvator

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Jean-Claude Bourlès: ''Le pèlerin de Compostelle se sent investi par les autres''
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Jean-Claude Bourlès, Écrivain, voyageur
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BOURLES Jean Claude - ''Le grand chemin de Compostelle''
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