Jean-Claude Walter
Jean-Claude Walter (20 April 1940 – 10 February 2025) was a French poet.
Jean-Claude Walter
- Name
- Jean-Claude Walter
- Born
- 20 April 1940
- Birthplace
- Besançon, France
- Died
- 10 February 2025
- Occupation
- Poet
- Education
- University of Strasbourg
- Full name
- Jean-Claude Alphonse Walter.
- Nationality
- France.
- Honours
- Charles Vildrac Prize and Cesare Pavese Prize.
- Languages
- French and German.
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• Name — Jean-Claude Walter • Born — 20 April 1940 • Birthplace — Besançon, France • Died — 10 February 2025 • Occupation — Poet • Education — University of Strasbourg
Life and career
Life and career
Walter was a graduate of the University of Strasbourg and wrote over a dozen works, several of which were translated into German, Italian, and English. Walter died on 10 February 2025, at the age of 84.
Poetry
Poetry
• Le Sismographe appliqué (1966) • Poèmes des bords du Rhin (1972) • Paroles dans l’arbre (1974) • Fragments du cri (1975) • Récits du temps qui brûle (1976) • Patience de la lumière (1978) • L’amour parole (1986) • Le Granit et la source (1987) • Poèmes premiers (1988) • L’Herbe sauvage (1992) • Dialogues d’ombre (1996) • Douze poèmes d’amour (2000)
Prose
Prose
• Le Rhin des poètes et des conteurs (1966) • L’évêque musclé (1968) • Léon-Paul Fargue ou l’homme en proie à la ville (1973) • Que notre Alsace est belle (1983) • Erwin Heyn, graveur et sculpteur (1998) • Les étincelles noires. Une enfance alsacienne (2002) • Chemins de ronde (2004) • Carnets du jour et de la nuit (2010) • Le Rhin, un voyage littéraire (2011) • Dans l'œil du dragon (2015)
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Besançon.
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Strasbourg.
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