 | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
Bernard Frank | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 October 1929 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
| Died | 3 November 2006 (aged 77) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Writer |
Bernard Frank (11 October 1929 – 3 November 2006) was a French journalist and writer.
Bernard Frank was raised in a comfortable family, where his father was a bank manager. After his baccalauréat, he started a Khâgne at the Lycée Pasteur but was expelled for bad conduct. He tried again to complete his preparatory classes at the lycée Condorcet, but abandoned them out of boredom during the second trimester.
At the age of 20, Frank met Jean-Paul Sartre, who entrusted him on a trial basis with a column in his magazine, Les Temps Modernes . He remained a periodic contributor, but after publication of his novel Les Rats (1953), he fell out with the magazine's management.
During 1952–1953, Frank was in charge of the literary column in l'Observateur, as a substitute for Maurice Nadeau. He started his work on the weekly with a double page which he dedicated to Drieu la Rochelle. He then coined the label "Hussards", in a December 1952 article published in Les Temps modernes , to designate writers such as Roger Nimier and Antoine Blondin.
He also contributed to Le Monde , the Cahier des saisons, the Nouveau Candide, and L'Actualité . "Every autumnn he disparaged the nominees for literary prizes, judging that too many bad novels are published, and mocked colleagues who found genius in the slightest nuance of the season; and just to push it, would double his ridicule just to wind them up." [1]
At the end of 1961, Frank met the journalist Jean Daniel while hospitalised in a Neuilly clinic, where their mutual friend, the editor Claude Perdriel, thought "perhaps maliciously" [2] to introduce them to one another. He again contributed to the Nouvel Observateur in the latter half of the 1960s.
Frank won the Prix des Deux Magots in 1971 for "un Siècle débordé", and the Roger Nimier Prize in 1981 for "Solde". That year he began a literary column in the daily Le Matin de Paris before rejoining Le Monde in 1985 and then Le Nouvel Observateur in 1989.
Frank died of a heart attack 3 November 2006, while dining in a restaurant in the 8th Arrondissement of Paris. His wife said that he was discussing politics at the moment of his death.
The Prix des Deux Magots is a major French literary prize. It is presented to new works, and is generally awarded to works that are more off-beat and less conventional than those that receive the more mainstream Prix Goncourt.
Jean Guitton was a French Catholic philosopher and theologian. Le Monde called him "the last of the great Catholic philosophers."
Roger Nimier was a French novelist.
Michel Déon was a French novelist and literary columnist. He published over 50 works and was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Prix Interallié for his 1970 novel, Les Poneys sauvages. Déon's 1973 novel Un taxi mauve received the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française. His novels have been translated into numerous languages.
Antoine Blondin was a French writer.
The Hussards was a French literary movement in the 1950s which opposed Existentialism and the figure of the politically engaged intellectual as personified by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Le Matin de Paris was a French daily newspaper, founded on 1 March 1977 by Claude Perdriel, and disappearing in 1987. Its foundation is the subject of the documentary Numéros zéro by Raymond Depardon.
Maurice Fleuret was a French composer, music journalist, radio producer, arts administrator, and festival organizer.
Jean Freustié, also known as Jean Pierre Teurlay was a French writer and literary critic. He won the 1969 Prix du roman de la société des gens de lettres, and 1970 Prix Renaudot, for Isabelle ou l'arrière-saison.
The Blue Hussar is a 1950 novel by the French writer Roger Nimier. Set in Germany in 1945–1946, it tells the story of ten French hussars who operate in the French occupation army right after World War II. The perspective shifts between several different people. At the centre are the ambivalent François Sanders and his companion François Saint-Anne—the title character—who unknowingly share the same German mistress.
The Roger Nimier Prize is a French literature award. It is supposed to go to "a young author whose spirit is in line with the literary works of Roger Nimier". Nimier (1925–1962) was a novelist and a leading member of the Hussards movement. The prize was established in 1963 at the initiative of André Parinaud and Denis Huisman and is handed out annually during the second half of May. It comes with a sum of 5000 euro.
Jean-Claude Pirotte was a Belgian writer, poet and painter. A French language writer, his 2006 novel, Une adolescence en Gueldre, won the Prix des Deux Magots.
The prix Broquette-Gonin was a former prize awarded by the Académie française.
Olivier Frébourg is a French journalist, writer and publisher.
Éric Ollivier, pseudonym for Yves Duparc, was a French writer, screenwriter and journalist, laureate of several French literary awards.
Jean-Claude Guillebaud is a French writer, essayist, lecturer and journalist.
Jérôme Garcin is a French journalist and writer. He heads the cultural section of the Nouvel Observateur, produces and hosts the radio program Le Masque et la Plume on France Inter, and is a member of the reading committee of the Comédie-Française.
Raoul Girardet was a French historian who specialized in military societies, colonialism and French nationalism. As a young man he was involved with the right-wing Action Française movement. He was not antisemitic, but was passionately nationalistic. During World War II he supported the French Resistance. Later he supported the OAS struggle against giving independence to Algeria.
Jean-Paul Enthoven is a French publisher and journalist.
Pol Vandromme was a Belgian literary critic and writer.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Other | |
