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Bernard Noël

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Bernard Noël
Noël in 2014
Noël in 2014
BornUrbain Bernard Fernand Noël
19 November 1930
Sainte-Geneviève-sur-Argence, France
Died13 April 2021
Laon, France
Pen nameUrbain d'Orlhac
OccupationPoet, essayist, art critic, novelist, visual artist, translator, playwright, literary critic, editor, writer, historian
CitizenshipFrench
Notable worksExtraits du corps, Le Château de Cène, Dictionnaire de la Commune, La Langue d'Anna, Le Syndrome de Gramsci, Le Reste du voyage, La Maladie du sens, Romans d'un regard, Magritte, Les Plumes d’Éros Œuvres I, L’ Outrage aux mots Œuvres II, La Place de l’autre Œuvres III, La Comédie intime, Le Chemin d'encre
Notable awardsPrix Guillaume Apollinaire 1976, Grand prix de poésie de la SGDL 1973, Prix France Culture 1988, Grand prix national de la poésie 1992, Prix Max Jacob 2005, Robert Ganzo Prize 2010, Grand pride de poésie Académie Française 2015
Website
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Bernard Noël (19 November 1930 – 13 April 2021)[1] was a French writer and poet. He received the Grand Prix national de la poésie (National Grand Prize of Poetry) in 1992, the Prix Robert Ganzo (Robert Ganzo Prize) in 2010,[2] as well as the Grand prix de poésie from the Académie Française for his entire poetic work in 2016.[3]

His book Le Reste du Voyage[4] was translated into English by Eléna Rivera and published by Graywolf Press in 2011;[5] it won the Robert Fagles Translation Prize from the National Poetry Series.[6]

Biography

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Noël published his first book of poetry, Les Yeux Chimeres, in 1955.[7] This was followed by the prose poems Extraits du corps (Essence of the body or Extracts from the text) in 1958.[8]

He then waited nine years before publishing his next book, La Face de silence (The Face of Silence, 1967), and eventually the controversial Le Château de Cène (Castle supper, 1969), erotic fiction that has been read as a protest against the war in Algeria.[9] Noël is also known for his artists' books in collaboration with Gérard Serée.[10] He also kept up a correspondence with the Italian poet Nella Nobili when she moved to Paris.[11]

Notes

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  1. ^ "L'Écrivain Bernard Noël est mort". Le Monde.fr. 14 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Six prix littéraires remis au festival Étonnants Voyageurs de Saint-Malo" (in French). Agence Bretagne Presse. 24 May 2010. Retrieved 6 September 2010.
  3. ^ "Tribute by Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin to Bernard Noël". www.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 8 November 2024.
  4. ^ Noël, Bernard (1997). Le reste du voyage: poèmes. Paris: POL. ISBN 978-2-86744-585-9.
  5. ^ Noël, Bernard; Rivera, Eléna (2011). The rest of the voyage: poems. Minneapolis, Minn: Graywolf Press. ISBN 978-1-55597-600-2.
  6. ^ "Robert Fagles Translation Prize Archives". National Poetry Series. Retrieved 8 November 2024.
  7. ^ Rothwell, Andrew (July 2007). "From aquarium to anatomist's table: Les Yeux Chimeres and the early poetics of Bernard Noel". Modern Language Review. 102 (3): 701–722. doi:10.2307/20467429. JSTOR 20467429. S2CID 163614355.
  8. ^ "Bernard Noël, vers de l'humain en formation". L'Humanité (in French). 23 June 2005. Archived from the original on 8 December 2007. Retrieved 6 September 2010.
  9. ^ "Points chauds". L'Humanité (in French). 1 March 2010. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2010.
  10. ^ Gerard Seree, Notes of biography, Gallery Michelle Champetier, 2020
  11. ^ "Ressource «Nobili, Nella (1926-1985)» -". Mnesys (in French). Retrieved 13 February 2022.