Henri Bosco
Illustration — Bosco's gravestone at the cemetery of Lourmarin Henri Bosco (16 November 1888 – 4 May 1976) was a French writer. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.
Also recorded as Enri Bosco
Henri Bosco
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- Full name
- Fernand Marius Bosco.
- Born
- 1888. · Avignon.
- Died
- 1976. · Nice.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- writer, poet, teacher, young adult author and novelist.
- Education
- Grenoble Alpes University.
- Honours
- Prix Renaudot, Ambassadors' Prize, Grand prix national des Lettres, Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française, Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy and Louis Barthou Prize.
- Languages
- French and Occitan.
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Illustration — Bosco's gravestone at the cemetery of Lourmarin Henri Bosco (16 November 1888 – 4 May 1976) was a French writer. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.
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Bosco was born in Avignon, Vaucluse, into a family of Provençal, Ligurian and Piedmontese origin. Through his father, he was related to Saint John Bosco, of whom he wrote a biography. His novels for adults and children provide a sensitive evocation of Provençal life. In 1945, he was awarded the Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Mas Théotime (The Farm Théotime). Other awards he received were the Prix des Ambassadeurs in 1949, the Grand prix national des Lettres in 1953, the Prix de l'Académie de Vaucluse in 1966, the Grand prix de la Mediterranée in 1967, and the Grand Prix de Littérature de l'Académie française in 1968. He died in Nice and was buried at the cemetery of Lourmarin.
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1888
Henri Bosco born at Avignon.
1976
Henri Bosco died at Nice.
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- 1.Tel qu'écrit sur son acte de naissance.
- 2.Marc Maynègre, 2006, .
- 3.Marc Maynègre, 2006.
- 4.Les agrégés de l'enseignement secondaire. Répertoire 1809-1960. cnrs.fr consulté.
- 5.Bosco, Henri (1888-1976). bunum.univ-cotedazur.fr consulté.
- 6.Grand Prix de littérature, Académie française, consulté en ligne le 15 mars 2015.
- 7.Suzanne Cervera, « Henri Bosco, le campagnard de Cimiez. La Maison rose, un haut lieu de l'esprit ».
- 8." Jean de la Lune " à l'Académie française. Le Monde. lire en. 30-05-1959.
- 9.Alpes de Lumières (1972), post-face de Luberon.
- 10.Lourmarin : l'offrande de l'amitié · Henri Bosco · Humazur
- 11.Notice d'Henri Bosco sur la base d'archives Léonore. Fiche consultée le 18 août 2023.
- 12.Comme l'affirme le spécialiste de Bachelard, Thierry Paquot, « Un philosophe urbain », sur Philosophie magazine, 5 novembre 2012, consulté le 2 juillet 2016.
- 13.Cahiers Henri Bosco, n°47-48, 2011-2012, Artois Presses Université, « Correspondance Gaston Bachelard – Henri Bosco ».
Bibliography printed in the source article · 11
- Denise Bourdet, Henri Bosco, dans : Encre sympathique, Paris, Grasset, 1966.
- En Provence, sur les pas de Bosco : Album illustré rassemblant le témoignage intime de Sophie Pacifico Le Guyader et des photographies de Jean-François Jung.
- Jean Cléo-Godin, « Henri Bosco et les prestiges de la nuit », Études françaises, vol. 3, n° 4, 1967, p. 371-388 (lire en ligne).
- Jean-Cléo Godin, Henri Bosco, une poétique du mystère, Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 1968.
- Marc Maynègre, « Henri Bosco, un chantre du Luberon », in La Fontaine de Pétrarque, Journal de la Société Littéraire, délégation de Vaucluse, , 2006.
- Stefana Squatrito, « Seuils et entre-deux dans l’œuvre d’Henri Bosco », Études françaises, vol. 56, n° 2, 2020, p. 51-65 (lire en ligne).
- Gérard Valin, Novalis et Henri Bosco, deux poètes mystiques, thèse de doctorat en lettres, Paris X, 1972
- Gérard Valin, Irénée et Pierre, (deux pièces pastiches inspirées de Pierre Lampédouze et Une Ombre) L'Harmattan, 2021.
- Robert Ytier, Henri Bosco ou l’amour de la vie : d’Avignon à Lourmarin par Marseille, Naples, Rabat et Nice. Souvenirs, témoignages et entretiens inédits (1965-1976), Éd. Aubanel, Lyon, 1996.
- Bernard Vigneron, Henri Bosco et Marcel Brion, approches, les Editions du Panthéon, Paris, 2023.
- Benoît Neiss, Henri Bosco : du Lubéron aux sommets de l'Olympe, Versailles, Via Romana, 219 p., 2025
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