Edmond Gojon

Edmond Gojon (11 April 1886, in Philippeville, Algeria – 5 April 1935) was a 20th-century French poet and writer.

Originally from French Algeria, Gojon went back after his studies at Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. With former schoolmates he founded, in 1903, in Algiers, the magazine L’Essor. He then published, from the following year, collections of poems of parnassianist and symbolist inspiration. His first collection was noticed by José-Maria de Heredia. Gojon's Le Jardin des dieux was awarded the Prix Femina in 1920. He then left poetry to become the bard of French Algeria (En Algérie avec les Français, Cent ans d’efforts français en Algérie...). He then returned to poetry with two last collections: Le Marchand de nuages (1930) and L’Empire de Cérès (1933). He is finally known to have adapted J'accuse…! by Émile Zola for Abel Gance, in 1913 (see J'accuse (1919 film)).

Works 1904: Antiquailles dorées 1907: Les Cendres de l'urne 1908: Poèmes de la douleur et de la solitude 1910: Le Visage penché 1912: La Grenade, Prix Archon-Despérouses of the Académie française 1913:Le Petit Germinet 1920: Le Jardin des dieux, Prix Femina 1927: En Algérie avec la France 1928: La légende de Barberousse, roi d’Alger 1930: Cent ans d'effort français en Algérie. Boufarik. 1932: Le Marchand de nuages, Prix Artigue of the Académie française 1933: L'Empire de Cérès