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Célia Bertin

セリア・ベルタン

Seria Berutan

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1920-10-22 (Unknown)
Died
2014-11-27 (Unknown) age 94
Nationality
French
Languages
French, English, Italian
Residence History
Cagnes-sur-Mer → Saint-Paul-de-Vence → Paris → Boston → New Hampshire → Maine

Career

Occupations
writer, journalist, biographer, French Resistance fighter
Active Years
1946-2014
Affiliations
Co-founder of literary magazine Roman
Influenced By
Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov

Education

Sorbonne
Literature
Degree: 文学学位
Country: France
Thesis on the influence of the Russian novel on the contemporary English novel (from Arnold Bennett to Virginia Woolf)
Lycée Fénelon
Country: France
Secondary education

Awards

Prix Renaudot
1953
Work: The Last Innocence
Organization: Prix Renaudot jury
Result: 受賞
Officer of the Legion of Honour
Organization: French government
Result: 受賞
Officer of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Organization: French Ministry of Culture
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Last Innocence

1953 Novel

Prix Renaudot-winning novel.

Translations
  • English translation by Marjorie Deans, 1955

Bibliography

  • La Parade des impies (1946)
  • La Bague était brisée (1947)
  • Les Saisons du mélèze (1949)
  • The Last Innocence (1953)
  • Contre-champ (1954)
  • Une femme heureuse (1957)
  • Le Temps des femmes (1958)
  • La Comédienne (1963)
  • Mayerling, ou le destin fatal des Wittelsbach (1967)
  • Je t'appellerai Amérique (1972)
  • Liens de famille (1977)
  • Marie Bonaparte, a life (1982)
  • Jean Renoir, a Life in Pictures (1991)
  • Femmes sous l'Occupation (1994)
  • Jean Renoir, cinéaste (1994)
  • Marie Bonaparte, la dernière Bonaparte (1999)
  • Louise Weiss (1999)
  • Femmes sous l'Occupation (2005)
  • Portrait d'une femme romanesque: Jean Voilier (2008)
  • La Femme à Vienne au temps de Freud (2009)

Legacy

French writer, journalist, and biographer who won the 1953 Prix Renaudot. Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour and Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Known as a French Resistance fighter.

Trivia

  • Married American advertising executive Jerry Reich and lived in the US (Boston, New Hampshire, Maine).