Christian Mégret
Christian Mégret, was a 20th-century French journalist and novelist, winner of the Prix Femina in 1957.
Life
Christian Mégret began his career as a colonial administrator in Togo, which inspired his first novel Anthropophages which appeared in 1934. He became a journalist at Jour in 1933 and then at Carrefour in 1945. He led a parallel career as a novelist, and in 1957 was awarded the Prix Femina for his work Le Carrefour des solitudes. His lovers included Princess Ghislaine de Polignac, whose intimate knowledge of the relationship of Baron de Redé and Arturo Lopez enabled Mégret to pen Danaë, a roman à clef based on the pair.
Works
Anthropophages, éditions Or Ils sont déjà des hommes, Librairie Fayard Arthème Les Fausses Compagnies, Plon Jacques, Plon L'Absent, Plon Carte forcée, Plon C'était écrit, Plon Danaë, Editions Robert Laffont Le Carrefour des solitudes, Editions René Julliard Haïssable moi, Grasset Les Chimères bleues de Chandernagor, Robert Laffont Un agent double, Gallimard J'ai perdu mon ombre, Denoë La Croix du sud, Beetle editions Les Liens du sang, Vertigo editions