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Jean Blanzat

ジャン・ブランザ

Jean Blanzat

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1906-01-06 (Domps, Haute-Vienne)
Died
1977-11-06 age 71
Nationality
French
Languages
French
Residence History
Haute-Vienne → Paris

Career

Occupations
novelist, French Resistance member, editor
Active Years
1929-1977
Affiliations
éditions Grasset, Éditions Gallimard, Le Figaro
Memberships
Groupe du musée de l'Homme, Comité national des écrivains
Influenced By
Jean Paulhan, Georges Duhamel, François Mauriac

Awards

Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française
1942
Work: L'Orage du matin
Organization: Académie française
Result: winner
Prix Femina
1964
Work: Le Faussaire
Organization: Prix Femina jury
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Enfance

1930 short story

Septembre

1936 novel

À moi-même ennemi

1936 novel

L'Orage du matin

1942 novel

La Gartempe

1957 novel

Le Faussaire

1964 novel

L'Iguane

1966 novel

Bibliography

  • Enfance (1930)
  • Septembre (1936)
  • À moi-même ennemi (1936)
  • L'Orage du matin (1942)
  • La Gartempe (1957)
  • Le Faussaire (1964)
  • L'Iguane (1966)

Legacy

French novelist and member of the French Resistance, noted for awards during wartime.

Archives

  • IMEC archives

Trivia

  • Member of the French Resistance.