Camille Bourniquel

Camille Bourniquel (7 March 1918 – 1 April 2013) was a French poet, novelist and painter.

Life Born in Paris, Bourniquel became friends with the poets and painters of his generation, François Baron-Renouard, Bazaine, Bertholle, Elvire Jan, Hartung, Jean Le Moal, Manessier, Pignon, Singier. He wrote prefaces, articles and numerous columns in art journals.

Bourniquel joined the magazine Esprit in 1946 and became its literary director in 1957.

In 1963 he wrote the texts of three art films about his painter friends and in 2004 donated works by Manessier (L’Homme à la branche, 1942; Composition bleue, 1942; Printemps, 1968; Cheminée au Bignon, 1945), Elvire Jan (L’atelier II, 1942) and Singier (Enfant jouant aux cubes, 1943) to the musée Unterlinden of Colmar.

Bourniquel died in Paris at age 95.

Laureates Prix du Renouveau in 1953 for Retour à Cirgue. Plume d'or du Figaro littéraire in 1966 for Le Lac. Prix Médicis in 1970 for Sélinonte ou la Chambre impériale. Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1977 for Tempo (novel). Prix Chateaubriand in 1981 for L'Empire Sarkis.