Jude Stéfan
Jacques Dufour (1 July 1930 – 11 November 2020), known by the pen name Jude Stéfan, was a French poet and novelist.
Also recorded as Jude Stefan
Jude Stéfan
- Name
- Jude Stéfan
- Birth Name
- Jacques Dufour
- Born
- 1 July 1930
- Birthplace
- Pont-Audemer, France
- Died
- 11 November 2020
- Place of death
- Orbec, France
- Occupation
- Poet
- Full name
- Jacques Louis Georges Dufour.
- Nationality
- France.
- Honours
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Max Jacob Prize.
- Languages
- French.
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Jacques Dufour (1 July 1930 – 11 November 2020), known by the pen name Jude Stéfan, was a French poet and novelist.
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• Name — Jude Stéfan • Birth Name — Jacques Dufour • Born — 1 July 1930 • Birthplace — Pont-Audemer, France • Died — 11 November 2020 • Place of death — Orbec, France • Occupation — Poet • Notable Works — Mit dem Gleichmut eines Schwans, der sich den Hals flöht. Gedichte und Prosa französisch/deutsch. Übersetzt und mit einem Nachwort von HANS RAIMUND. edition pen LÖCKER, Vienna 2023
Biography
Biography
Stéfan studied law and philosophy. He was a teacher at the Lycée Augustin Fresnel in Bernay where he taught French, Latin, and Greek. Throughout his career, he published numerous novels, essays, and poems.
Poetry
Poetry
• Cyprès (1967) • Libères (1970) • Idylles (1973) • Poésie (1978) • Aux chiens du soir: poèmes en titre (1979) • Laures: poèmes (1984) • Litanies du scribe (1984) • Alme Diane (1986) • À la vieille Parque (1989) • Stances: ou 52 contre-haï-ku (1991) • Elégiades (1993) • Prosopopées (1995) • Povrésies ou 65 poèmes autant d’années (1997) • Épodes ou poèmes de la désuétude (1999) • Génitifs (2001) • La Muse Province (2002) • Caprices (2004) • Désespérance, déposition (2006) • Que ne suis-je Catulle (2010) • Disparates (2012)
Novels
Novels
• Vie de mon frère (1973) • La Crevaison (1976) • Lettres tombales (1983) • Les États du corps (1987) • La Fête de la patronne (1991) • Le nouvelliste (1993) • Scènes dernières: histoires de vie-mort (1995) • Vie de Saint (1998) • Oraisons funestes (2003) • L’Angliciste (2006) • L'idiot de village (2008)
Essays
Essays
• Gnomiques ou de l’Inconsolation (1985) • Faux journal (1986) • De Catulle: et vingt transcriptions (1990) • Xénies (1992) • Scholies (1992) • Epitomé ou Chrestomathie à l’usage des débutants en littérature (1993) • Senilia (1994) • Variété VI (1995) • Chroniques catoniques (1996) • Silles (1997) • Variété VII (2000) • Pandectes ou le neveu de Bayle (2008)
Other works
Other works
• Suites slaves (1983) • Les Accidents (1984) • La Vieille Parque (1984) • Dialogue avec la sœur (1987) • Dialogue des figures (1988) • Les courtisans (1992) • PrOsEMES (1997) • Quatre épodes (1998) • 25 lettres d’alphabet (2000) • Litanies du scribe (2001) • Lettre à une morte (2002) • L’Anti-Pédagogue (2003) • Le Sillographe (Diurnal invectif 1997-2003 (2004) • Les Stéfan (2004) • Thanasies (2005) • Jude Stéfan, rencontre avec Tristan Hordé (2005) • Grains & issues (2007) • Les Commourants (2008) • Ménippées. P(r)o(s)ésies (2011) • Factum (2012)
Interview
Interview
Stéfan participated in a series of interviews on the CD album L'Usine à muse in 2011. The track he appeared on was titled Je îl(e) déserte.
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Manneville-sur-Risle.
Birth place
Saint-Désir.
Death place
Awards
• Prix Max-Jacob (1985) • Grand prix de Poésie de la Ville de Paris (2000)
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- 1.État civil sur le fichier des personnes décédées en France depuis 1970
- 2.Anne Blanchard. Le poète Jude Stéfan a quitté sa vie d’ombre(s). ouest-france.fr. 13 novembre 2020.
- 3.L'Atelier d'écriture de Jude Stéfan. Avidis production, Centre Georges Pompidou. 1995 vidéo.
- 4.On peut écouter l'entretien sur Myspace.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Michel Sicard, Jude Stéfan, Seghers, coll. Poètes d'Aujourd'hui, Paris, 1988, 231 p. .
- Cahier Huit - Jude Stéfan, Le Temps qu'il fait, 1993
- Jude Stéfan - Rencontre avec Tristan Hordé, Argol, 2005.
- Europe, n°1127 ( ), dossier Jude Stéfan coordonné par Gérard Cartier.
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