biography
pronunciation:
[blãza]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1906–77)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Eymoutiers, C France. A teacher in Versailles, he later joined the Musée de l'Homme Resistance network. He remained attached to his native Limousin and dedicated La Gartempe (1954) to François Mauriac. L'Orage du matin won the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française, and La Faussaire was awarded the Prix Fémina. L'Iguana (1966) had a preface by Raymond Queneau. He worked for the review Europe directed by Jean Guehanno, which published his first story L'Enfance in 1930. A co-founder of Les Lettres Françaises (clandestine reviews), after World War 2 he became literary editor for Grasset until 1953, when he entered the Reading Committee at Gallimard. He ran the diary of Figaro littéraire from 1945. |
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