Camille Bourniquel
Illustration — Camille Bourniquel in 1997, Jean Bertholle exhibition, La Ciotat Camille Bourniquel (7 March 1918 – 1 April 2013) was a French poet, novelist and painter.
Camille Bourniquel
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- Full name
- Camille René Bourniquel.
- Born
- 1918. · 5th arrondissement of Paris.
- Died
- 2013. · Courbevoie.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- poet, musicologist, journalist and writer.
- Honours
- Prix Médicis, Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, Grand prix catholique de littérature and Prix Chateaubriand.
- Languages
- French.
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Illustration — Camille Bourniquel in 1997, Jean Bertholle exhibition, La Ciotat Camille Bourniquel (7 March 1918 – 1 April 2013) was a French poet, novelist and painter.
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Life
Life
Born in Paris, Bourniquel became friends with the poets and painters of his generation, François Baron-Renouard, Bazaine, Bertholle, Elvire Jan, Hartung, Jean Le Moal, Manessier, Pignon, Singier. He wrote prefaces, articles and numerous columns in art journals. Bourniquel joined the magazine Esprit in 1946 and became its literary director in 1957. In 1963 he wrote the texts of three art films about his painter friends and in 2004 donated works by Manessier (L’Homme à la branche, 1942; Composition bleue, 1942; Printemps, 1968; Cheminée au Bignon, 1945), Elvire Jan (L’atelier II, 1942) and Singier (Enfant jouant aux cubes, 1943) to the musée Unterlinden of Colmar. Bourniquel died in Paris at age 95.
Laureates
Laureates
• Prix du Renouveau in 1953 for Retour à Cirgue. • Plume d'or du Figaro littéraire in 1966 for Le Lac. • Prix Médicis in 1970 for Sélinonte ou la Chambre impériale. • Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1977 for Tempo (novel). • Prix Chateaubriand in 1981 for L'Empire Sarkis.
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5th arrondissement of Paris.
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Courbevoie.
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- 1.Obituary on France Inter
- 2.L'écrivain Camille Bourniquel est mort on Le Point
- 3.Décès de l'écrivain Camille Bourniquel.http://www.bfmtv.com/societe/deces-lecrivain-camille-bourniquel-a-96-ans-482664.html, BFMTV 01/04/2013
- 4.Obituary on L'Express
- 5.Décès de l'écrivain Camille Bourniquel on Le Figaro
- 6.L'Été des solitudes on WorldCat
- 7.Sélinonte ou la Chambre impériale on WorldCat
- 8.Bourniquel on Académie française
Bibliography printed in the source article · 30
- Le Moal, Manessier, Singier, , Paris, 1946.
- Quatrains, Burins de Singier, Éditions de la Galerie Biliet-Caputo, Paris, 1949.
- Retour à Cirgue, novel, Le Seuil, Paris, 1953 (Prix du Renouveau).
- Le Blé sauvage, novel, Le Seuil, Paris, 1955.
- Irlande, "Petite Planète", Le Seuil, Paris, 1955.
- Les Créateurs et le sacré, Textes et témoignages de Delacroix à nos jours with , Éditions du Cerf, Paris, 1956.
- Chopin, Microcosme "Solfèges", Le Seuil, Paris, 1957.
- Les Abois, novel, Le Seuil, Paris, 1957.
- L'Été des solitudes, L'Été des solitudes on WorldCat novel, Le Seuil, Paris, 1960.
- Le Lac, novel, Le Seuil, Paris, 1964 (Golden feather of le Figaro littéraire). , Paris, 2000.
- La Maison verte, short stories, Le Seuil, Paris, 1966.
- Les Gardiens, theatre, Le Seuil, Paris, 1969.
- Sélinonte ou la Chambre impériale, Sélinonte ou la Chambre impériale on WorldCat Le Seuil, Paris, 1970 (Prix Médicis) .
- Sentier d'Hermès, poems, 21 drawings by Alfred Manessier, Galanis, Paris, 1971.
- L'Enfant dans la cité des ombres, Grasset, Paris, 1973.
- La Constellation des lévriers, novel, Le Seuil, Paris, 1975.
- Rencontre, series Idée Fixe, Julliard, Paris, 1976.
- Tempo, novel, Paris, Julliard, 1977 (Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française) Bourniquel on Académie française .
- L'Enfant dans la cité des ombres, seven lithographs by Manessier, Le Livre contemporain & les Bibliophiles Franco-Suisses, Paris, 1978.
- Le Soleil sur la rade, novel, Julliard, Paris, 1979.
- L'Empire Sarkis, novel, Julliard, Paris, 1981 (Prix Chateaubriand).
- Le Jugement dernier, novel, Julliard, Paris, 1983.
- Elvire Jan, Éditions Guitardes, Paris, 1984.
- Le Manège d'hiver, novel, Julliard, Paris, 1986.
- Le Jardin des délices, Paris, Mercure de France, 1987.
- La Féerie et le royaume, original lithographs by Marc Chagall, Mourlot, Paris.
- Karma, tale, Éditions de Fallois, Paris, 1999.
- Queen Alicia, novel, Éditions de Fallois, Paris, 2004 .
- Poèmes, Éditions de Fallois, Paris, 2004.
- Paul Valéry, Dernier dîner à Auteuil, 2009
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