Alain Bosquet
Native name
Анато́лий Биск
BornAnatoliy Bisk
(1919-03-28)March 28, 1919
DiedMarch 17, 1998(1998-03-17) (aged 78)
NationalityFrench

Alain Bosquet, born Anatoliy Bisk (Russian: Анато́лий Биск) (28 March 1919 – 17 March 1998), was a French poet.

Life

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In 1925, his family moved to Brussels and he studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, then at the Sorbonne.

He fought in the Belgian army in 1940, then in the French army. In 1942, he fled with his family to Manhattan, where he helped edit the Free French magazine Voix de France. He enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II, and received U.S. citizenship. He met his wife, Norma Caplan, in Berlin. He was Special Adviser to the mission on behalf of the Allied Control Council Quadripartite Council of Berlin from 1945 to 1951.[1]

In 1947, with Alexander Koval and Édouard Roditi founded the German-language literary review, Das Lot ("The Sounding Line"), six numbers from October 1947 until June, 1952, with publisher Karl Heinz Henssel in Berlin.

In 1957, Galerie Parnass (Wuppertal) published the Artist's book Micro Macro with poems by Alain Bosquet and lithographs from Heinz Trökes in 50 copies.

In 1958, he taught French literature at Brandeis University, then American literature at the University of Lyon from 1959 to 1960.[2] He worked as a freelance critic for Combat, Le Monde, and Le Figaro.[3]

He became a French citizen in 1980.

He headed the jury of the Max Jacob Prize, the Académie Mallarmé and was a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.[4]

Awards

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Works

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English translations

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Poetry

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Essays

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Novels

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Stories

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Non-fiction

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Theatre

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References

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  1. ^ "Alain Bosquet, Surrealist Poet".
  2. ^ James Kirkup (11 April 1998). "Obituary: Alain Bosquet". The Independent. Archived from the original on 13 September 2010.
  3. ^ Saxon, Wolfgang (8 April 1998). "Alain Bosquet, French Writer And Critic, 78". The New York Times.
  4. ^ "Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique : Alain Bosquet".
  5. ^ "Alain Bosquet, Surrealist Poet".
  6. ^ [from a copy that I am holding in my hands showing copyright mark followed by "by Bernard Grasset 1964." on the reverse of the title page, and an acquisition date in 1965 by my public library.]