100 notes pour une solitude. Poèmes. offert par l'alliance francaise paris 1970

Description: Very rare copy from poet Alain Bosquet What makes this limited copy even more rare is the stamp with "offert par l'alliance francaise paris" Copy is Numbered #323Great condition, strong spine, please notice the scrapes on image #3 Waiting to be added to your collection. About the artist: 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 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 Edouard Roditi founded the German-language literary review, Das Lot ("The Sounding Line"), six numbers from October 1947 until June, 1952, with publisher Karl Heinz Henssel in Berlin. In 1957, Galerie Parnass (Wuppertal) 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. Awards1968 Prix de poésie le Metais-Larivière (by the Académie française) 1986 Prix Chateaubriand1989 Prix Goncourt de la poésie1991 Grand prix de la poésie de la ville de Paris1992 Prix de la langue de FranceOfficer of the Legion of Honour Bronze Star Medal Né à Odessa le 28 mars 1919, Alain Bosquet (de son vrai nom Anatole Bisk) a passé sa jeunesse à Bruxelles. Il s'est engagé dans l'armée américaine en 1942. Installé définitivement à Paris en 1951, il a collaboré à Combat, au Monde, au Figaro et à plusieurs maisons d'édition. Romancier (Un homme pour un autre, Lettre à mon père qui aurait eu cent ans, Les Solitudes) et poète (Je ne suis pas un poète d'eau douce), il reçoit le Grand prix de poésie de l'Académie française en 1968. Naturalisé en 1980, il a fondé la revue Nota Bene et a été membre du jury Renaudot. Il est mort à Paris le 17 mars 1998.

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