Henri Coulonges

• Name — Henri Coulonges • Birth Name — Marc-Antoine de Dampierre • Born — 11 July 1936 • Birthplace — Deauville, France • Died — 4 May 2023 • Occupation — Writer Painter

Born in Deauville on 11 July 1936, Coulonges spent ten years writing for the magazine Connaissance des Arts. In 1975, his first novel, Les Rives de l'Irrawaddy, was published by Fayard. In spring 1979, he published his second novel, L'Adieu à la femme sauvage, which received press coverage in Le Canard enchaîné and received the Prix RTL grand public. At the end of the year, the novel won him the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française. The novel would be his greatest critical and commercial success, which received praise from the likes of Jean Mistler, Jean Clémentin, and Françoise Xenakis. Numerous film studios in the United States and the United Kingdom took interest in adapting the novel, but none of these plans materialized. Coulonges was up for another award from the Académie Française in 1997, but narrowly lost to Jean-François Revel. Henri Coulonges died on 4 May 2023, at the age of 86.

• Les Rives de l'Irrawaddy (1975) • L'Adieu à la femme sauvage (1979) • À l'approche d'un soir du monde (1983) • Les Frères Moraves (1987) • La Lettre à Kirilenko (1989) • La Marche hongroise (1992) • Passage de la comète (1996) • Six oies cendrées (2001)

• Cross for Military Valour

Henri Coulonges was recorded at birth as Marc-Antoine Marie Yves de Dampierre. He also worked under the name Henri Coulonges. The authorities additionally record the headings Marc-Antoine de Dampierre and Marc-Antoine Marie Yves de Dampierre. His recorded language was French. He was the child of Eric de Dampierre and Elyane de Gontaut-Biron. He married Chantal Eltvedt. 2 children are recorded: Henri Charles Marie de Dampierre and Hubert Jacques Marie Jean de Dampierre.

Henri Coulonges is recorded as having received Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, Prix des Quatre jurys and Prix Chateaubriand.