biography
pronunciation:
[buhnwah]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1885–1962)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Albi, S France. An editor in the ministry of public education, he began with two poems, Diadumène, in 1914. After four rejections by publishers, he was assured immediate success with his first novel, Koenigsmark (1918), published through the intervention of Francis Carco. It was later filmed by Léonce Perret in 1933 (the speaking version of which was finished by Maurice Tourneur in 1935). His novel L'Atlantide (1919) received the Grand Prix de l'Academie Française in 1931, and Mademoiselle de la Ferté (1933) was one of many best-sellers. The name of his heroines always began with an A. |
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