Jean Malrieu

Jean Malrieu was a 20th-century French poet.

Biography

He attended high school in his hometown and then studied law. He was mobilized in 1939. After the war, he practiced various trades, before becoming a teacher. He established friendly relations with the Surrealists and met André Breton on the occasion of the publication of his collection Préface à l'amour in 1953. He collaborated with several publications of the surrealist movement. As a communist militant, he distanced himself from the French Communist Party in 1956 after the Soviet intervention in Hungary. He evolved from a lyrical writing to a drier, sometimes more anguished writing, but always attentive to everyday objects, animals, plants and the earth that carries them. He asserted that poetry "requires rigorous language."
He created the magazines Action poétique then Sud, which would continue the action of Les Cahiers du Sud.

Prizes

1953: Prix Guillaume Apollinaire
1963: Prix Antonin-Artaud

Studies on Jean Malrieu

2004: Jean Malrieu. L'inquiétude et la ferveur – A collective work with unpublished works by Jean Malrieu and studies by writers and scholars on various aspects of his work. Available at the Babel laboratory of the University of Toulon
2007: Jean Malrieu by, éd. des Vanneaux