Emmanuel Roblès

Emmanuel Roblès (4 May 1914 in Oran, French Algeria – 22 February 1995 in Boulogne, Hauts-de-Seine) was a French author and playwright. He was elected a member of the Académie Goncourt in 1973. He was one of many influential pieds-noirs of his time. The Prix Emmanuel Roblès literary award was established in his honour in 1990.

Selected bibliography La Vallée du paradis (1940) Travail d'homme (1942) La Marie des quatres vents (1942), short story Nuits sur le monde (1944), short stories L'Action (1946) Les Hauteurs de la ville (1948), winner of the Prix Femina Montserrat (1948), play La Mort en face (1951), short stories Cela s'appelle l'aurore (1952) Federica (1954) Les Couteaux (1956), novel about Mexico L'Homme d'Avril (1959), short stories (title story about Japan) Le Vésuve (1961) Jeunes saisons (1961), autobiography La Remontée du fleuve (1962) La Croisière (1968) Un Printemps d'Italie (1970) L'Ombre et la rive (1972), short stories Saison violente (1974) Un Amour sans fin (1976) Les Sirènes (1977) L'Arbre invisible (1979) Venise en hiver (1981) La chasse à la licorne (1985) Norma, ou, L'Exil infini (1988) Albert Camus et la trêve civile (1988), criticism Les Rives du fleuve bleu (1990), short stories Cristal des jours (1990), poetry L'Herbe des ruines (1992) Erica (1994), short stories Camus, frère de soleil (1995), biography