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Marius Grout

マリウス・グラウト

Marius Grout

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1903-11-08 (Fauville-en-Caux)
Died
1946-05-01 (Le Havre) age 42
Nationality
French
Languages
French
Religion
Religious Society of Friends Baptized in 1932
Residence History
St. Saire near Neufchâtel-en-Bray → Rouen → Le Havre

Career

Occupations
writer, poet, teacher
Active Years
1937-1946
Affiliations
Religious Society of Friends
Memberships
Religious Society of Friends
Influenced By
Emile Danoën, Pierre Aubery, Toyohiko Kagawa

Awards

Prix Goncourt
1943
Work: Passage de l'homme
Organization: Académie Goncourt
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Passage de l'homme

1943 novel

A novel depicting the passage of a man's life. Winner of the Prix Goncourt.

lifemysticism

Kagawa

1937 biography

Biography of Toyohiko Kagawa.

religionpeace

Bibliography

  • Kagawa
  • Le Poète et le Saint
  • Le Déluge
  • Musique d’Avent
  • Mysticisme et poésie
  • Le vent se lève
  • Passage de l'homme
  • Poèmes
  • Un Homme perdu
  • Poèmes à l’inconnue
  • À un Jeune Poète
  • Kagawa, le Gandhi japonais

Style & Themes

Literary Style
mysticalpoetic
Recurring Motifs
mysticismpoetryreligion

Legacy

Known as a Prix Goncourt winner, acclaimed for works on mysticism and poetry. Several schools named after him.

In Popular Culture

  • Schools named after him in Rouen, Montivilliers, and Saint-Saire.

Trivia

  • His father was a postman.
  • Buried in Incheville.