Dominique Rolin

Dominique Rolin (; 22 May 1913 – 15 May 2012) was a Belgian novelist.

Dominique Rolin was a granddaughter of Léon Cladel. Her career was launched by Jean Cocteau and Jean Paulhan during the Second World War. Over some sixty years she developed a unique, feminist voice in French novel-writing, blending seamlessly autobiography and fiction, and centred on two men, her first husband, a sculptor, and avant-garde writer and theorist Philippe Sollers with whom she had a half-century secret relationship. He appeared in her novels as "Jim". She was a Femina Prize winner and a member of the Belgian Royal Academy of French Literature where she succeeded Marguerite Yourcenar.

She was a Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur.

Works Repas de famille (1932), novella Les Pieds d’argile (1935), novel La Peur (1936), novella Marais (1942), Anne la bien-aimée (1944), Le Souffle (1952), Prix Femina Les Quatre coins (1954) Artémis (1958) Le Lit (1960) Maintenant (1967) Le Corps (1969) Les Éclairs (1971) Lettre au vieil homme (1973) L’Enragé (1978) L’Infini chez soi (1980) L’Enfant-roi (1986) Trente ans d’amour fou (1988) Vingt chambres d’hôtel (1990) L’Accoudoir (1996) La Rénovation (1998) Journal amoureux (2000), novel Le Futur immédiat (2001), novel Plaisirs (2001), Lettre à Lise (2003)

Awards Prix Femina, (1952), for Le Souffle. Franz Hellens prijs, (1978), for L'Enragé. Prix Kléber Haedens, (1980), for L’Infini chez soi. Prix Roland Jouvenel of the Académie française, (1990), for Vingt chambres d’hôtel. Prix Thyde Monnier, (1991), entire œuvre. Grand prix national des Lettres, (2001), entire oeuvre.