Lorand Gaspar
Illustration — Lorand Gaspar Lorand Gaspar (28 February 1925, in Târgu Mureș – 9 October 2019, in Paris) was a Hungarian–born French poet.
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Lorand Gaspar

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- Born
- 1925. · Târgu Mureș.
- Died
- 2019. · 6th arrondissement of Paris.
- Nationality
- Hungary and France.
- Occupation
- poet, surgeon, translator, photographer, historian, writer and physician.
- Education
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
- Honours
- Grand prix national de la poésie, Prix Guillaume Apollinaire, Broquette-Gonin prize, Prix Goncourt de la Poésie, Heredia Prize and Mallarmé Prize.
- Languages
- French and Hungarian.
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Illustration — Lorand Gaspar Lorand Gaspar (28 February 1925, in Târgu Mureș – 9 October 2019, in Paris) was a Hungarian–born French poet.
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Life
Life
Gaspar was born in February 1925 in Târgu Mureș, Romania. In 1943, he enrolled at Palatine Joseph University of Technology and Economics (today: Budapest University of Technology and Economics) in Engineering, was mobilized months later, and then imprisoned in a labor camp. He escaped in March 1945, and surrendered to the French in Pfullendorf. He moved to France, where he studied medicine, becoming later a surgeon in France, then in Jerusalem, where he lived for sixteen years, and in Bethlehem and Tunis. He lived in Paris, where he was involved in medical research dealing with human psychology. He published his first verse collection in 1966, Le Quatrième État de la matière (Flammarion) and published a number of prose works and travel books as a photographer. He mastered several languages: to the languages learned as a child, Hungarian, Romanian and German, and later French, English, Latin, Greek and Arabic. He translated (in collaboration with Sarah Clair), Spinoza, Rilke, Seferis, D. H. Lawrence, Peter Riley, and Pilinsky. Gaspar died in Paris in October 2019 at the age of 94.
English Translations
English Translations
• "from Nuits: An evening in front of the fireplace at Saint Rémy du Val", Jacket 14, translated by Peter Riley, July 2001 * • Earth Absolute & Other Texts, translated by Mary Ann Caws and Nancy Kline, New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2015. • "Leaving Sidi Bou Said",The Fortnightly Review - New Series, translated by Amine Mouaffak and Sahar Taghdisi Rad, January 2019
French Language Works
French Language Works
• Le Quatrième État de la matière Paris: Flammarion, 1966. Prix Apollinaire, 1967. • Gisements Paris: Flammarion, 1968. • Histoire de la Palestine Paris: Maspero, 1968 et 1978. • Palestine, année zéro Paris: Maspero, 1970. • Sol absolu, Paris: Gallimard, 1972. • * • Approche de la parole, Paris, Gallimard, 1978. • Corps corrosifs, Fata Morgana, 1978. • Egée suivi de Judée, Paris, Gallimard, 1980. * • Feuilles d'observation. Paris: Gallimard, 1986. • Carnets de Patmos. Cognac: Le Temps qu'il fait, 1991. • Égée, Judée, suivi d’extraits de Feuilles d’observation et de La maison près de la mer. Paris: Gallimard, 1993. • Apprentissage. Paris: Deyrolle, 1994. • Carnets de Jérusalem, Cognac, Le temps qu'il fait, 1997. • Patmos et autres poèmes. Paris: Gallimard, 2001. • Derrière le dos de Dieu. Paris: Gallimard, 2010.
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1925
Lorand Gaspar born at Târgu Mureș.
2019
Lorand Gaspar died at 6th arrondissement of Paris.
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Târgu Mureș.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q2580414: Lorand Gaspar
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- “Lorand Gaspar”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Poétique et géopoétique de Lorand Gaspar
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1079945970, Colloque international "Lorand Gaspar et la matière-monde" (2013 : Tunis).
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Awards
• 1998 Prix Goncourt de la Poésie
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- 1.La disparition en tapinois du grand poète Loránd Gáspár. Mediapart.
- 2.Relevé des fichiers de l'Insee
- 3.remue.net, la revue. remue.net.
- 4.Loránd Gáspár, Georges Perros, Correspondance, La Part Commune, 2001, p. 224
- 5.Prix Guillaume Apollinaire – les lauréats. www.prix-apollinaire.fr.
- 6.Academie Goncourt. Académie Goncourt.
- 7.Modernité de Saint-John Perse ?: actes du colloque de Besançon des 14, 15 et 16 mai 1998, Catherine Mayaux (dir.), Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2001, p. 390
- 8.Jean-Yves Debreuille, Loránd Gáspár, Seghers, 2007, p. 22
- 9.Alif - Articles et sites Internet. refer.org via Internet Archive.
- 10.Madeleine Le Cunff-Renouard, Loránd Gáspár: transhumance et connaissance, J.-M. Place, 1995, p. 337
- 11.Michael Brophy, Mary Gallagher, Sens et présence du sujet poétique: la poésie de la France et du monde francophone depuis 1980, Rodopi, 2006, p. 59
- 12.Jacques Fradin et al., L'intelligence du stress: Mieux vivre avec les neurosciences, Editions Eyrolles, 2011
Bibliography printed in the source article · 11
- Loránd Gáspár, cahier , éd. Le Temps qu'il fait, Cognac, 2004.
- Jean-Yves Debreuille, Loránd Gáspár, Seghers, Poètes d'aujourd'hui, 2007
- [[Nunc|Nunc ]] - Numéro spécial Loránd Gáspár, 112 p., 2008
- Maha Ben Abdeladhim, Loránd Gáspár, en question de l'errance, L'Harmattan, 2010
- Maxime Del Fiol, Loránd Gáspár. Approches de l'immanence, Paris, Hermann, Vertige de la langue, 2013,
- Marie-Antoinette Bissay et Anis Nouaïri, Lorand Gaspar. La matière-monde, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2015
- Arnaud Bernadet, Philippe Payen de la Garanderie, Traduire-écrire, cultures, poétiques, anthropologie, ENS éditions, 2014.
- Gérard Danou, « Loránd Gáspár, un poète de la lumière », Médecine, vol. 2 ( 8) : 382, 2006
- Laurence Bougault et Judith Wulf (dir.), Lorand Gaspar et la langue, suivi d'entretiens inédits avec Claude Debon, Éditions Styl-m, Association internationale de stylistique, 2011,
- Patrick Née, Lorand Gaspar, une poétique du vivant, Paris, Hermann, 2020,
- Víctor Bermúdez, Ciencia y modulación del pensamiento poético: percepción, emoción y metáfora en la escritura de Lorand Gaspar, Salamanca, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2017,
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 1079945970, Colloque international "Lorand Gaspar et la matière-monde" (2013 : Tunis).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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