Prix Goncourt
1 appearances
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Edition 14 (1916) Winner
Henri Barbusse
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Henri Barbusse
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1873-05-17 （Asnières-sur-Seine）
- Died
- 1935-08-30 （Moscow） age 62
- Nationality
- French
- Languages
- French, English
- Residence History
- Asnières-sur-Seine → Paris → Moscow
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, short story writer, journalist, poet, political activist
- Active Years
- 1895-1935
- Affiliations
- French Communist Party, World Committee Against War and Fascism
- Memberships
- French Communist Party, Bolshevik Party, World Congress Against Imperialist War
- Influenced
- Ernest Hemingway, Erich Maria Remarque
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | Prix Goncourt | Under Fire (Le Feu) | — | Académie Goncourt | 受賞 |
| 1915 | Croix de guerre | — | — | French Army | 受賞 |
Prix Goncourt
1916
Work:
Under Fire (Le Feu)
Organization:
Académie Goncourt
Result:
受賞
Croix de guerre
1915
Organization:
French Army
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Under Fire (Le Feu)
1916 NovelA novel about World War I based on the author's experiences, considered one of the earliest works of the Lost Generation.
warpacifismcritique of militarism
Translations
- translated by William Fitzwater Wray
Bibliography
- 1895 – Pleureuses (The Hired Mourners)
- 1903 – Les Suppliants (The Supplicants)
- 1908 – L'enfer (Hell)
- 1912 – Meissonier
- 1916 – Le feu (Under Fire)
- 1919 – Clarté (Light)
- 1921 – Le couteau entre les dents (The Knife Between My Teeth)
- 1921 – Quelque Coins du Coeur
- 1923 – Esperantista Laboristo
- 1927 – Jesus, Les Judas de Jesus
- 1930 – Manifeste aux intellectuels (Elevations)
- 1935 – Staline (Stalin: A New World Seen Through the Man)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Symbolistneo-Naturalist
- Recurring Motifs
- horrors of warrevolutionsocial justice
Health
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dysentery1914-1917Led to pulmonary damage, exhaustion, reassigned to clerical position
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pneumonia1935Cause of death
Legacy
Important French writer of WWI era, communist activist supporting Stalin. Henri Barbusse Battalion in Spanish Civil War.
In Popular Culture
- Henri Barbusse Battalion in Spanish Civil War
Trivia
- Lifelong friend of Albert Einstein
- Esperantist