Charles Vildrac
Charles Vildrac, born "Charles Messager", was a French libertarian playwright, poet and author of what some consider the first modern children's novel, L'Île rose.
Born in Paris, Vildrac's first poems were written when he was a teenager in the 1890s. In 1901 he published Le Verlibrisme, a defense of traditional verse. In 1912 he published a collection of prose poems.
He was a member of the Abbaye de Créteil which he founded with Georges Duhamel. He died in Saint-Tropez.
The Prix de [poésie Charles Vildrac] is named for him.
Works
Poèmes Images et mirages, poemsLivre d'amour, poemsNotes sur la technique poétique, Notes on Poetic Technique, with Georges DuhamelChants du désespéré , Songs of a Desperate Man, poemsDécouverte, récit novelChants du désespéré, poemsLe Paquebot Tenacity, theatre playL'Indigent, theatre playMichel Auclair L'Île rose, children's novel, lit. The Pink Island, translated as Rose IslandPoèmes de l'Abbaye, poemsMadame Béliard, theatre playProlongement, poemsD’un voyage au Japon, travel storyLa Brouille, The Misunderstanding, theatre playLa Colonie, children's novel Les Lunettes du lion, children's taleLa famille Moineau, children's taleLe Jardinier de Samos, theatre playMilot, children's taleBridinette, children's talePoucette, theatre playL'œuvre peinte d'Eugène Dabit, monographieRussie neuve, travel storyL'Air du temps, theatre playTrois mois de prison L'Honneur des poètes, volume of poems published by the French Resistance; Vildrac's contribution appears under the pseudonym Robert BaradeLazare, in Chroniques de Minuit, Les Éditions de Minuit, p. 15-39Les Pères ennemis, The Enemy Fathers, theatre playD'après l'écho Amadou le Bouquillon, children's taleLes Jouets du Père Noël, The Toys of Father Christmas- ''Pages de journal''