Georges-Emmanuel Clancier
Georges-Emmanuel Clancier (3 May 1914 – 4 July 2018) was a French poet, novelist, and journalist. He won the Prix Goncourt (poetry), the Grand Prize of the Académie française, and the grand prize of the Société des gens de lettres.
Also recorded as Georges Emmanuel Clancier
Georges-Emmanuel Clancier

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- Born
- 1914. · Limoges.
- Died
- 2018. · 16th arrondissement of Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- poet, novelist, writer, literary critic and journalist.
- Fields
- creative and professional writing, poetry and literary criticism.
- Known for
- L'Éternité plus un jour.
- Honours
- Prix Antonin-Artaud, prix des Libraires, Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française, Prix Goncourt de la Poésie, Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL and Prix des Quatre jurys.
- Languages
- French.
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Georges-Emmanuel Clancier (3 May 1914 – 4 July 2018) was a French poet, novelist, and journalist. He won the Prix Goncourt (poetry), the Grand Prize of the Académie française, and the grand prize of the Société des gens de lettres.
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Georges-Emmanuel Clancier (1914–2018) was a journalist, literary critic and novelist, among other activities, of French nationality. The journalist was born in Limoges and died in 16th arrondissement of Paris. Georges-Emmanuel Clancier was also known as Pierre Bessière.
Georges-Emmanuel Clancier worked for Fontaine, Les Cahiers du Sud and Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française. Activity centred on creative and professional writing, literary criticism and poetry.
Among the works is L'Éternité plus un jour. Languages used include French. Honours include Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française, Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL and Prix Antonin-Artaud, among others.
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Life
Life
The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is creative and professional writing, poetry and literary criticism. Employment is recorded with Les Cahiers du Sud, Fontaine and Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française. Works named in the authority record are L'Éternité plus un jour. Distinctions recorded are Prix Antonin-Artaud, prix des Libraires, Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française and Prix Goncourt de la Poésie.
Clancier was born in Limoges, France on 3 May 1914. He began writing poems and, in 1933, to work for journals including Les Cahiers du Sud. He came in 1939 to Paris, but returned in 1940 in Limousin, studying at the Faculty of Arts at Poitiers and Toulouse, and met Joe Bousquet in Carcassonne. In 1940, he joined the editorial board of the journal Fontaine led in Algiers by Max-Pol Fouchet. In Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat (Haute-Vienne), he met Raymond Queneau, Michel Leiris, Lourmarin Claude Roy, Pierre Seghers, Loys Masson, Pierre Emmanuel and Max-Pol Fouchet. From 1942 to 1944, he collected and transmitted secretly in Algiers texts of writers of the French Resistance to occupied France. After the Liberation, he was responsible for programs on Radio-Limoges, and was a journalist for the Populaire du Centre. He wrote articles and made extensive comments on the radio, of the work of Maurice Boitel, who came to paint in the region. He founded, with Robert Margerit and René Rougerie, the magazine Centres, then edited a collection of poems, manuscripts, poetry and criticism for Éditions Rougerie (including poems by Claude Roy, Jean Lescure, Boris Vian). From 1955 to 1970, he worked in Paris as secretary general of the programming committees of Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française, (which later became the ORTF). In 1956 he published Le Pain noir, a series of novels in which he told, until 1961, the story of his family, and his maternal grandmother, an illiterate shepherd. Le Pain noir, was adapted for television in 1974, by Françoise Verny and Serge Moati. He was President of the PEN of France from 1976 to 1979, where he worked in the defense of writers threatened, detained, deported or exiled. In 1980 he was vice-president of the French Commission for UNESCO, in 1987 Vice President of International PEN, and chairman of the House of Writers which was founded in 1986 to 1990. He turned 100 on May 3, 2014, and died on July 4, 2018, at the age of 104.
Poetry
Poetry
Temps des héros, Cahiers de l'École de Rochefort, 1943. Le Paysan céleste, Marseille, Robert Laffont, 1943. Journal parlé, Limoges, Rougerie, 1949. Terre secrète, Paris, Seghers, 1951. L'Autre rive, Limoges, Rougerie, 1952. Vrai visage, Paris, Seghers, 1953; Paris, Robert Laffont, 1965. Une Voix, Paris, Gallimard (Prix Artaud 1957). Évidences, Paris, Mercure de France, 1960. Terres de Mémoire, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1965. Le Siècle et l'espace, Marc Pessein, 1970. Peut-être une demeure, précédé d' Écriture des jours, Paris, Gallimard, 1972. Le Voyage analogique, Paris, Jean Briance, 1976. Oscillante parole, Paris, Gallimard, 1978. Mots de l'Aspre, Georges Badin, 1980. Le Poème hanté, Paris, Gallimard, 1983. Le Paysan céleste, suivi de Chansons sur porcelaine, Notre temps, Écriture des jours, préface de Pierre Gascar, Paris, Poésie Gallimard, 1984. L'Orée, Luxembourg, Euroeditor, 1987. Tentative d'un cadastre amoureux, Ottawa (Canada), Écrits des Forges, 1989. Passagers du temps, Paris, Gallimard, 1991. Contre-Chants, Paris, Gallimard, 2001. Terres de mémoire suivi de Vrai visage, Paris, La Table Ronde, coll. poche La Petite vermillon n° 187, 2003, 288 p. (ISBN 2710325683). Le Paysan céleste - Notre part d'or et d'ombre (poèmes 1950–2000), préface d'André Dhôtel, Paris, Poésie/Gallimard, 2008. Vive fut l'aventure, Paris, Gallimard, 2008.
Novels
Novels
Quadrille sur la tour, Alger, Edmond Charlot, 1942 puis Mercure de France 1963 La Couronne de vie, Paris, Edmond Charlot, 1946 Dernière heure, Paris, Gallimard, 1951; Éditions du Rocher, 1998 Le Pain noir (I), Paris, Robert Laffont, 1956 La Fabrique du roi (II), Paris, Robert Laffont, 1957 Les Drapeaux de la ville (III), Paris, Robert Laffont, 1959 La Dernière Saison (IV), Paris, Robert Laffont, 1961 Les Incertains, Paris, Seghers, 1965; Paris, Robert Laffont, 1970 L'Éternité plus un jour, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1969; La Table Ronde, 2005 La Halte dans l'été, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1976 Le Pain noir, La Fabrique du roi, Tome I, Les Drapeaux de la ville, La dernière saison, Tome II, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1991 Une Ombre Sarrasine, Paris, Albin Michel, 1996
Stories
Stories
La Couleuvre du dimanche, Nice, Méditerranea, 1937 Le Parti des enfants, Paris, Les Œuvres libres n°137, Arthème Fayard, 1957 Le Baptême, Paris, Les Œuvres libres n° 156, Arthème Fayard, 1959 Les Arènes de Vérone, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1964 L'Enfant de neige, Paris, Casterman, 1978 L'Enfant qui prenait le vent, Paris, Casterman, 1984
Autobiography
Autobiography
Ces ombres qui m'éclairent: L'Enfant double, Paris, Albin Michel, 1984 L'Ecolier des rêves, Paris, Albin Michel, 1986 Un Jeune Homme au secret, Paris, Albin Michel, 1989

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Life and career
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1914
Georges-Emmanuel Clancier born at Limoges.
2018
Georges-Emmanuel Clancier died at 16th arrondissement of Paris.
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Limoges.
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16th arrondissement of Paris.
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scholarly publication
- L’espace poétique de Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, Le Limousin et ses horizons dans l’œuvre de George-Emmanuel Clancier, 2013
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2013
- Un roman de l'expérience du temps advenu : L'éternité plus un jour de Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, Le Coq-héron, 2006
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2006
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q3102084: Georges-Emmanuel Clancier
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- “Georges-Emmanuel Clancier”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards
1949 Prix Maurice Bourdet 1957 The Grand Prize Société des gens de lettres 1957 Prix des Quatre Juries 1970 Booksellers Award 1971 Grand Prix of the Académie française 1992 Prix Goncourt
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L’espace poétique de Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, Le Limousin et ses horizons dans l’œuvre de George-Emmanuel Clancier, 2013Crossref registry
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Un roman de l'expérience du temps advenu : L'éternité plus un jour de Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, Le Coq-héron, 2006Crossref registry
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