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Alain Borne

1915 – 1962

French poet

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Lived 1915 – 1962 (aged 47). Alain Borne was a French poet.

Alain Borne (; 12 January 1915 – 21 December 1962) was a 20th-century French poet. A lawyer in Montélimar, he lived relatively unknown to the literary circles in Paris. But he was very close to Pierre Seghers.

Borne was killed in a car accident about fifty kilometers north of Avignon. Half of his work has since been published.

Works 1939: Cicatrices de Songes, Feuillets de l'îlot (Prix du Goéland 1939) 1941: Neige et 20 Poèmes, 1942: Contre-feu, Cahiers du Rhône 1943: Seuils, 1945: Brefs, Confluences 1945: Regardez mes mains vides, PAB 1945: Terre de l'été, Robert Laffont 1946: Poèmes à Lislei, Seghers 1947: L'Eau Fine, Éditions Gallimard 1951: O P. 10, PAB Pierre-André Benoit 1953: En une seule injure, (Prix Antonin-Artaud (1954) 1953: Orties, Henneuse 1954: Demain la nuit sera parfaite, Rougerie 1955: Treize, PAB Pierre-André Benoit 1957: Adresses au vent, translated into Italian by G. A. Brunelli, Capitoli 1959: Encore, Rougerie 1961: Encres, Club du poème

Posthumous 1962: L'amour brûle le circuit, Club du poème 1963: La Dernière Ligne, Club du poème 1964: La nuit me parle de toi, Rougerie 1964: Célébration du hareng, (prose) Robert Morel 1965: Les fêtes sont fanées followed by La dernière ligne, Club du poème 1969: Encres, édition définitive, Club du poème 1969: Vive la mort, 1969: Le Facteur Cheval, (prose) éditions Robert Morel, photographs by Henriette Grindat 1971: Indociles, Club du poème 1971: Le Plus Doux Poignard, Chambelland 1974: Complaintes, Saint-Germain-des-Prés 1980: Œuvres poétiques complètes, tome 1, Curandera 1981: Œuvres poétiques complètes, tome 2, Curandera 1991: Textes inédits, prose et correspondance, magazine n° 3/4 1992: Seul avec la beauté, (first anthology of unpublished poems), éditions Voix d'encre 1994: L'amour, la vie, la mort, (Second anthology of unpublished poems), éditions Voix d'encre 1999: Poèmes inédits, magazine Voix d'encre, n° 20 2000: La marquise sortit à 5 heures, (short stories), éditions Voix d'encre 2001: Terre de l'été followed by Poèmes à Lislei, Éditions Editinter, reprint 2001: En passant par le lycée... Alain Borne, lycée Alain Borne 2001: Un brasier de mots, poems compiled by , éditions Voix d'encre 2002: L'eau fine followed by En une seule injure, Éditions Editinter, reprint 2002: célébration du hareng, poésie/première 22, reprint 2002: Encres, Atelier du Hanneton, reprint 2003: Poèmes d'amour, (anthology) 2006: la nuit me parle de toi, Trident neuf, reprint 2008: Treize followed by Indociles, éditions Fondencre, reprint 2014: L'iris marchait de son odeur, unpublished proses and poems compiled by Alain Blanc, éditions Voix d'encre 2015: L'amour brûle le circuit, Encres, Les fêtes sont fanées, La dernière ligne followed by extracts of his diary, éditions Fondencre, reprint 2016: Brefs, followed by Orties and Adresses au vent, éditions Voix d'encre, reprint 2016: Seuils, followed by Regardez mes mains vides, Op. 10 and Treize, éditions Voix d'encre, reprint

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French poet (1915-1962)

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Alain Borne was born on 12 January 1915 in Saint-Pont.

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Alain Borne died on 21 December 1962 in Lapalud.

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Alain Borne was a poet.

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Alain Borne was French.

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