Prix des Deux Magots
1 appearances
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Edition 49 (1985) Winner
Claude Esteban
クロード・エステバン
Kurōdo Esuteban
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1935-07-26 （Paris, France）
- Died
- 2006-04-10 （Paris, France） age 70
- Nationality
- French
- Languages
- French, Spanish
- Residence History
- Paris, France
Career
- Occupations
- Poet, Art critic, Professor of Spanish literature, Translator
- Active Years
- 1964-2006
- Affiliations
- Mercure de France, Nouvelle Revue Française, Argile (founder), Paris-Sorbonne University, Maison des Ecrivains (President, 1998-2004)
- Influenced By
- Jorge Guillén, Octavio Paz, René Char, Federico García Lorca
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lycée Louis-le-Grand | — | — | — | — | France |
| École Normale Supérieure | — | Spanish literature | — | — | France |
Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Country:
France
École Normale Supérieure
Spanish literature
Country:
France
Studied Spanish literature
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Mallarmé prize | Conjoncture du corps et du jardin | — | — | winner |
| 1991 | France Culture prize | Soleil dans une pièce vide | — | France Culture | winner |
| 1997 | Grand Prix of poetry of the Société des gens de lettres | whole work | — | Société des gens de lettres | winner |
| 2001 | Prix Goncourt of poetry | whole work | — | — | winner |
Mallarmé prize
1984
Work:
Conjoncture du corps et du jardin
Result:
winner
France Culture prize
1991
Work:
Soleil dans une pièce vide
Organization:
France Culture
Result:
winner
Grand Prix of poetry of the Société des gens de lettres
1997
Work:
whole work
Organization:
Société des gens de lettres
Result:
winner
Prix Goncourt of poetry
2001
Work:
whole work
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Terres, travaux du cœur
1979 Poetry collectionFirst large collection of poems gathering early works.
Works of the heartEarth
Translations
- White Road, Selected Poems (partial)
Conjoncture du corps et du jardin
1983 Prose poemsProse poems on the conjuncture of body and garden.
BodyGardenCosmogony
Translations
- Conjuncture of Body and Garden
- Conjuncture of Body and Garden – Cosmogony
Soleil dans une pièce vide
1991 Poetry collectionPoetic narrations inspired by Edward Hopper's paintings.
EmptinessLight
Morceaux de ciel, presque rien
2001 Poetry collectionContains poems inspired by Faiyum portraits.
Pieces of skyHardly anything
Bibliography
- La Mort à distance (2007)
- Le Jour à peine écrit (1967-1992) (2006)
- Morceaux de ciel, presque rien (2001)
- Terres, travaux du cœur (1979)
- Conjoncture du corps et du jardin (1983)
Translations by Author
- Jorge Guillén Cántico
- Octavio Paz El Mono gramático
- Jorge Luis Borges works
- Federico García Lorca works
- Francisco de Quevedo works
Translations of Works
- A Smile between the stones (English)
- White Road, Selected Poems (English)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Emphasis on complicity between poetry and paintingPoetics marked by linguistic division and exileDuty to seek immediate bond with the sensible world
- Recurring Motifs
- Division and exile in languageGathering the scatteredIntersection of poetry and painting
Legacy
Author of a major poetic œuvre of the last half-century. Known for poetry, essays on art and poetry, and translations. Pursued fusion of poetry and painting. Prix Goncourt of poetry winner.
Trivia
- Of Spanish father and French mother, marked by painful feeling of division and exile in language.
- Founded the literary magazine Argile in 1973.
- His wife, painter Denise Esteban, died around 1986.