About Bernard Chambaz
Born 1949. Bernard Chambaz is a French historian, novelist, poet, non-fiction writer and writer.
Bernard Chambaz (born 18 May 1949 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French writer, historian and poet, winner of several French literary prizes.
Selected bibliography Poetry 1983: & le plus grand poème par-dessus bord jeté, Seghers 1985: Corpus, Messidor 1987: Vers l'infini milieu des années quatre-vingt, Seghers 1992: Italiques deux, Seghers 1997: Entre-temps, Flammarion 1999: Échoir, Flammarion 2005: Été, Flammarion 2010: Été II, Flammarion
Essais 1987: Le Principe Renaissance, la Sétérée 1989: La Dialectique Véronèse, La Sétérée 1999: Œil noir (Degas), Flohic 2001: Autoportrait sous les arbres, Flohic 2003: La Déposition, with Jean-Pierre Schneider, Le Temps qu'il fait 2006: Ecce Homo (Rembrandt), 2010: Le vif du sujet, Le Temps qu'il fait 2014: Petite philosophie du vélo, Flammarion 2016: À tombeau ouvert, Stock Novels 1992: L'Arbre de vies, F. Bourin; Points-Seuil, (Prix Goncourt du premier roman) 1995: L'Orgue de Barbarie, Seuil, 1997: La Tristesse du roi, Seuil 1998: Le Pardon aux oiseaux, Seuil 2000: Une fin d'après-midi dans les jardins du zoo, Seuil 2014: Dernières nouvelles du martin-pêcheur, Flammarion 2015: Vladimir Vladimirovitch, Flammarion
Series Mes disparitions 2005: Kinopanorama, Panama 2007: Yankee, Panama 2010: Ghetto, Seuil Travel narrations 2003: Petit voyage d'Alma-Ata à Achkhabad, Seuil 2003: À mon tour, Seuil 2007: Evviva l'Italia : ballade, Éditions Panama 2013: Portugal, Bourin Éditeur
Narrations 1994: Martin cet été, Julliard 2011: Plonger, Gallimard 2012: Caro carissimo Puccini, Gallimard
Other 2004: L'Humanité (1904–2004), Seuil 2006: Des nuages, Seuil 2011: Marathon(s), Seuil
Prizes and honours 1993: Prix Goncourt du premier roman for L'Arbre de vies, François Bourin, 1992 1994: Prix Paul Vaillant-Couturier for Martin cet été, Julliard 2005: Prix Apollinaire for Eté, Flammarion, 2005 2009: Prix Louis-Guilloux for Yankee (éditions du Panama, 2008) 2014: Prix Louis-Nucera, Prix Roland de Jouvenel of the Académie française and Grand prix de littérature sportive for Dernières nouvelles du martin-pêcheur (Flammarion)
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French writer, historian and poet
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Bernard Chambaz was born on 18 May 1949 in Boulogne-Billancourt.
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Bernard Chambaz is a historian, novelist, poet, non-fiction writer and writer.
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