Alain Bosquet
Alain Bosquet, born Anatoliy Bisk , was a French poet.
Life
In 1925, his family moved to Brussels and he studied at the Université libre de Bruxelles, then at the Sorbonne.He fought in the Belgian army in 1940, then in the French army. In 1942, he fled with his family to Manhattan, where he helped edit the Free French magazine Voix de France. He enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II, and received Citizenship of [the United States|U.S. citizenship]. He met his wife, Norma Caplan, in Berlin. He was Special Adviser to the mission on behalf of the Allied Control Council Quadripartite Council of Berlin from 1945 to 1951.
In 1947, with Alexander Koval and Édouard Roditi founded the German-language literary review, Das Lot, six numbers from October 1947 until June, 1952, with publisher Karl Heinz Henssel in Berlin.
In 1957, Galerie Parnass published the Artist's book Micro Macro with poems by Alain Bosquet and lithographs from Heinz Trökes in 50 copies.
In 1958, he taught French literature at Brandeis University, then American literature at the University of Lyon from 1959 to 1960. He worked as a freelance critic for Combat, Le Monde, and Le Figaro.
He became a French citizen in 1980.
He headed the jury of the Max Jacob Prize, the Académie Mallarmé and was a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.
Awards
- 1968 Prix de poésie le Metais-Larivière
- 1986 Prix Chateaubriand
- 1989 Prix Goncourt de la poésie
- 1991 Grand prix de la poésie de la ville de Paris
- 1992 Prix de la langue de France
- Officer of the Legion of Honour
- Bronze Star Medal
Works
Poetry
Les mois de l'annéeLa vie est clandestine 1945A la mémoire de ma planète 1948Langue morte 1951Quel royaume oublié 1955- have a nice day and forget youDeuxième testament 1959, Prix Max JacobMaître objet 1962Quatre testaments et autres poèmes 1967100 notes pour une solitude 1969Notes pour un amour 1972Penser contre soi 1973Notes pour un pluriel 1974Livre du doute et de la grâce 1977Vingt et une nature morte ou mourantes 1978Poème un 1979Les enfants 1980Raconte-moi le passé... 1980Sonnets pour une fin de siècle 1981Poème deux 1981Un jour après la vie 1984L'autre origine 1984Le tournament de Dieu 1987, Prix ChateaubriandBourreaux et acrobates, poèmes sans chauffeur 1990Le gardien des rosées 1991Effacez moi ce visage 1991Capitaine de l'absurde 1991Demain sans moi 1994La fable et le fouet 1995MerLes mots sont des êtresLa trompe de l'éléphantUn enfant m'a dit...
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