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Jean Fayard

ジャン・ファヤール

Jan Fayāru

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1902-01-01 (Paris)
Died
1978-01-01 (Paris, France) age 76
Nationality
French
Languages
French
Residence History
Paris, France

Career

Occupations
Journalist, Writer, Publisher
Active Years
1924-1977
Affiliations
Editions Fayard

Awards

Prix Goncourt
1931
Work: Mal d'amour
Organization: Académie Goncourt
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Mal d'amour

1931 Novel

A novel depicting the pains of love. Winner of the Prix Goncourt.

LoveSuffering
Translations
  • German: Liebesleid

Bibliography

  • Deux ans à Oxford? (1924)
  • Dans le monde où l'on s'abuse (1925)
  • Journal d'un colonel (1925)
  • Trois quarts de monde: roman (1926)
  • Oxford et Margaret (1928)
  • Madeleine et Madeleine (1928)
  • Bruxelles (1928)
  • Mal d'amour (1931)
  • Liebesleid: Roman (1933)
  • La féérie de la rue: roman (1937)
  • Mes Maitresses (1941)
  • Roman (1945)
  • L'Allemagne sous le Croix de Lorraine (1945)
  • La guerre intérieure (1974)
  • Je m'éloigne: roman (1977)

Translations of Works

  • Oxford & Margaret (English trans. by Louis Golding, 1925)
  • Desire (English trans. by Warre Bradley Wells, 1932)

Legacy

Goncourt Prize-winning writer and director of Editions Fayard. Grandson of the founder of Fayard publishing house.

Archives

  • Institut Mémoires de l'édition contemporaine (IMEC), Paris

Trivia

  • Grandson of the founder of Fayard publishing.
  • Succeeded his father Joseph Artheme Fayard as head of the publishing house in 1936.