Louis-René des Forêts
Louis-René des Forêts (28 January 1916 – 30 December 2000) was a French writer.
Also recorded as Louis-Rene des Forets
Louis-René des Forêts
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- Died
- 2000 · 14th arrondissement of Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- poet · writer · literary critic
- Education
- École Libre des Sciences Politiques
- Honours
- Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL · Grand prix national des Lettres · Prix des Critiques · Prize for Subjective Writing
- Languages
- French
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Louis-René des Forêts (28 January 1916 – 30 December 2000) was a French writer.
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Life
Life
Des Forêts's only novel, The Beggars (Les Mendiants) was published by Éditions Gallimard in 1943. The rest of his works include shorter narratives, such as his best known work, Le Bavard, and poetry. His work has been commented on by authors such as Maurice Blanchot or Yves Bonnefoy. In 1954, des Forêts co-founded a committee against the Algerian war, with Dionys Mascolo, Edgar Morin and Robert Antelme. In 1967, he co-founded the literary journal L'Éphémère with writers Yves Bonnefoy, André du Bouchet, Paul Celan, Jacques Dupin, Michel Leiris and others. Des Forêts received several literary prizes in France and Belgium. He was awarded the Grand prix national des Lettres for the entirety of his work in 1990. Des Forêts was also a painter.
Compilations in English
Compilations in English
• The Children’s Room, trans. Jean Stewart (Calder, 1963). Includes: The Bavard; "The Children's Room" ("La chambre des enfants"); "The Great Moments of a Singer" ("Les grands moments d'un chanteur"); and "Disordered Silence" ("Une mémoire démentielle").
Identity
Identity
Louis-René des Forêts is recorded as having received Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL, Grand prix national des Lettres and Prix des Critiques. Recognition and collections. Forêts received Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL, Grand prix national des Lettres, Prix des Critiques and Prize for Subjective Writing.
Life and career
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1918
Louis-René des Forêts born at 16th arrondissement of Paris.
2000
Louis-René des Forêts died at 14th arrondissement of Paris.
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16th arrondissement of Paris.
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14th arrondissement of Paris.
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Awards and honours
• 1960: Prix des Critiques for La Chambre des enfants • 1988: Prix Maeterlinck for his body of work • 1990: Grand prix national des Lettres for his body of work • 1997: Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL for Ostinato • 1997: Prix de l'Écrit intime for Ostinato
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- 1.Acte de naissance (vue 27/31) avec mentions marginales du mariage et du décès. Archives en ligne de la Ville de Paris, été-civil du arrondissement, registre des naissances de 1916.
- 2.Copie intégrale de l'acte de décès 31 fourni par la mairie du .
- 3.Sciences Po, le roman vrai. Sciences Po, les presses. 2022. 978-2-7246-3915-5.
- 4.Biographie sur le site des Éditions Gallimard
- 5.Larousse en ligne : L-R. des Forêts
- 6.Site Gallimard : Histoire de la coll. la Pléiade
- 7.Encyclopédie Larousse : Le Manifeste des 121
- 8.Brève au décès de des Forêts dans l’Humanité du 3 janvier 2001.
- 9.Site de la BnF : chronologie des membres du Comité de lecture Gallimard.
- 10.Revues littéraires : Présentation de l’Éphémère.
- 11.Harvsp Rocheville 2003 p=57-66 .
- 12.Site de la SGDL : Prix reçus par des Forêts
- 13.Des Forêts intime. Libération. Libération (journal). 12. avril. 1997. 21 mai 2013.
- 14.Réédité en 2013 par les éditions du Chemin de fer, avec des illustrations de Frédérique Loutz et une postface de Jean Roudaut . (Présentation. Page consultée le 26 mars 2013.)
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