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Dominique Rolin

ドミニク・ロラン

Dominique Rolin

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1913-05-22 (Ixelles)
Died
2012-05-15 (Paris) age 98
Nationality
Belgian
Languages
French
Residence History
Ixelles (Brussels) → Paris

Career

Occupations
novelist, writer
Active Years
1932-2003
Affiliations
Belgian Royal Academy
Memberships
Belgian Royal Academy
Influenced By
Léon Cladel, Jean Cocteau, Jean Paulhan
Influenced
Philippe Sollers

Awards

Prix Femina
1952
Work: Le Souffle
Result: winner
Franz Hellens Prize
1978
Work: L'Enragé
Result: winner
Prix Kléber Haedens
1980
Work: L’Infini chez soi
Result: winner
Prix Roland Jouvenel
1990
Work: Vingt chambres d’hôtel
Organization: Académie française
Result: winner
Prix Thyde Monnier
1991
Work: entire œuvre
Result: winner
Grand prix national des Lettres
2001
Work: entire œuvre
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Le Souffle

1952 novel

Femina Prize-winning novel blending autobiography and fiction.

loveautobiography

Vingt chambres d’hôtel

1990 novel

Novel about love experiences in twenty hotel rooms.

lovehotels

Journal amoureux

2000 novel

Novel in diary form about passionate love.

lovediary

Bibliography

  • Repas de famille
  • Les Pieds d’argile
  • La Peur
  • Marais
  • Anne la bien-aimée
  • Le Souffle
  • Les Quatre coins
  • Artémis
  • Le Lit
  • Maintenant
  • Le Corps
  • Les Éclairs
  • Lettre au vieil homme
  • L’Enragé
  • L’Infini chez soi
  • L’Enfant-roi
  • Trente ans d’amour fou
  • Vingt chambres d’hôtel
  • L’Accoudoir
  • La Rénovation
  • Journal amoureux
  • Le Futur immédiat
  • Plaisirs
  • Lettre à Lise

Style & Themes

Literary Style
blending autobiography and fictionunique feminist voicepoetic prose
Recurring Motifs
loverelationships with menhotelsintimate daily life

Legacy

Belgian French-language novelist who developed a unique feminist voice over sixty years, blending autobiography and fiction centered on relationships with two men. Winner of the Prix Femina and member of the Belgian Royal Academy.

Trivia

  • Granddaughter of Léon Cladel.
  • Her career was launched by Jean Cocteau and Jean Paulhan during World War II.
  • Had a half-century secret relationship with Philippe Sollers despite an age gap.