Alain Bosquet
Alain Bosquet, born Anatoliy Bisk (Russian: Анато́лий Биск) (28 March 1919 – 17 March 1998), was a French poet.
Also recorded as Anatole Bisk
Alain Bosquet

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- Full name
- Анато́лий Александрович Биск.
- Born
- 1919. · Odesa.
- Died
- 1998. · 8th arrondissement of Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- poet and writer.
- Education
- University of Paris and Free University of Brussels.
- Honours
- Officer of the Legion of Honour, Bronze Star Medal, Prix Guillaume Apollinaire, Prix Sainte-Beuve, Max Jacob Prize and Broquette-Gonin prize.
- Languages
- Russian and French.
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Alain Bosquet, born Anatoliy Bisk (Russian: Анато́лий Биск) (28 March 1919 – 17 March 1998), was a French poet.
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Alain Bosquet (1919–1998) was a poet and writer, of French nationality. The poet was born Анато́лий Александрович Биск in Odesa and died in 8th arrondissement of Paris.
Alain Bosquet was educated at Free University of Brussels and University of Paris. The poet was a member of Academie Royale de Langue et de littérature Françaises.
Languages used include French and Russian. Honours include Bronze Star Medal, Broquette-Gonin prize and Max Jacob Prize, among others.
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Life
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 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 ("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.
English translations
English translations
Graham Dunstan Martin, ed. (1971). Anthology of contemporary French poetry. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292710061. Selected Poems. Translated by Samuel Beckett; Lawrence Durrell; Fowlie Wallace. Ohio University Press. 1972. ISBN 978-0-8214-0111-8. Speech is plurality. Translated by Melvin B. Yoken; Juliet G. Lapointe. University Press of America. 1978. ISBN 978-0-8191-0626-1. Instead of music: poems. Translated by William Frawley. Louisiana State University Press. 1980. ISBN 978-0-8071-0584-9. No matter no fact: poems. Translated by Samuel Beckett. New Directions Publishing. 1988. ISBN 978-0-8112-1040-9. Alain Bosquet. God's Torment. Translated by Edouard Roditi. Ohio University Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-8214-1091-2. Roger Little, ed. (1999). Stances perdues. Translated by Roger Little. Dedalus. ISBN 978-1-901233-41-4.
Poetry
Poetry
Les mois de l'année La vie est clandestine 1945 A la mémoire de ma planète 1948 Langue morte 1951 Quel royaume oublié 1955 have a nice day and forget you Deuxième testament 1959, Prix Max Jacob Maître objet 1962 Quatre testaments et autres poèmes 1967 100 notes pour une solitude 1969 Notes pour un amour 1972 Penser contre soi 1973 Notes pour un pluriel 1974 Livre du doute et de la grâce 1977 Vingt et une nature morte ou mourantes 1978 Poème un 1979 Les enfants 1980 Raconte-moi le passé... 1980 Sonnets pour une fin de siècle 1981 Poème deux 1981 Un jour après la vie 1984 L'autre origine 1984 Le tournament de Dieu 1987, Prix Chateaubriand Bourreaux et acrobates, poèmes sans chauffeur 1990 Le gardien des rosées 1991 Effacez moi ce visage 1991 Capitaine de l'absurde 1991 Demain sans moi 1994 La fable et le fouet 1995 Mer Les mots sont des êtres La trompe de l'éléphant Un enfant m'a dit... Arbre
Essays
Essays
Saint-John Perse Pierre Emmanuel Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson Robert Sabatier Lawrence Durrell Conrad Aiken Carl Sandburg Anthologie de la poésie américaine 1956 35 jeunes poètes américains 1961 Verbe et vertige 1962 Les 20 Meilleurs Nouvelles Françaises (1964) Ed. Gérard et Co, Coll. " Bibliothèque Marabout Géant " n° 192. Les 20 Meilleurs Nouvelles Russes (1964) Ed. Gérard et Co, Coll. " Bibliothèque Marabout Géant " n° 202. Middle West 1967 Un atlas des voyages 1967 Injustice 1969 Les Poèmes de l'année, Alain Bosquet, Pierre Seghers, eds, Seghers., 1968 Roger Caillois 1971 En compagnie de Marcel Arland 1973 Pas d'accord Soljénitsyne 1974 La poésie française depuis 1950, une anthologie 1979 La poésie francophone de Belgique 1987 La mémoire ou l'oubli 1990 Marlène Dietrich, une amour par téléphone 1992 La Russie en lambeaux 1991 Van Vogh 1980
Novels
Novels
La Grande Éclipse 1952 Ni singe ni Dieu 1953 Le mécréant 1960 Un besoin de malheur 1963 La Confession mexicaine 1965 Les tigres de papier 1968 L'amour à deux têtes 1970 Chicago, oignon sauvage 1971 Monsieur Vaudeville 1973 L'amour bourgeois 1974 Les bonnes intentions 1975 Une mère russe 1978 Jean-louis Trabart, médecin 1980 L'enfant que tu étais 1982 Ni guerre, ni paix 1983 Les Petites éternités 1984 → 1964 Les fêtes cruelles 1984 Lettre à mon père qui aurait eu 100 ans 1987 Claudette comme tout le monde 1991 Les solitudes 1992
Stories
Stories
Georges et Arnold, Arnold et Georges 1995 Marlène Dietrich, Un amour par téléphone, Paris, La Différence, 1992, rééd. coll. "Minos", 2002.
Non-fiction
Non-fiction
Un homme pour un autre 1985 Le métier d'otage 1989 Comme un refus de la planète 1989
Theatre
Theatre
Un détenu à Auschwitz 1991 Kafka-Auschwitz 1993
Life and career
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Life and career
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1919
Alain Bosquet born at Odesa.
1998
Alain Bosquet died at 8th arrondissement of Paris.
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Odesa.
Birth place
8th arrondissement of Paris.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q2472632: Alain Bosquet
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- “Alain Bosquet”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1088043089, Entretiens avec Alain Bosquet.
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Awards
1968 Prix de poésie le Metais-Larivière (by the Académie française) 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
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- 1.Alain Bosquet, Surrealist Poet.
- 2.James Kirkup. Obituary: Alain Bosquet. The Independent. 11 April 1998.
- 3.Saxon, Wolfgang. Alain Bosquet, French Writer And Critic, 78. The New York Times. 8 April 1998.
- 4.Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique : Alain Bosquet.
- 5.Alain Bosquet, Surrealist Poet.
- 6.[from a copy that I am holding in my hands showing copyright mark followed by "by Bernard Grasset 1964." on the reverse of the title page, and an acquisition date in 1965 by my public library.]
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