Joseph Peyré

Joseph Peyré (13 March 1892, in Aydie (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) – 26 December 1968, in Cannes) was a French writer. He won the Prix Goncourt in 1935 for Sang et Lumières.

Life

His father was a schoolteacher. He studied at Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, at the Lycee Louis-Barthou, then Paris and Bordeaux (Doctor of Laws and Bachelor of Philosophy), he went into journalism.

Three themes animate the work of the "novelist of loneliness and the exaltation of man":

The desert and travels through the sand, in his Sahara cycle, in particular White Squadron (Renaissance 1931), The Leader in the Star Silver (Carthage 1934), The Legend of goumier Said; Spain, seen in Sang et Lumières (1935) or Guadalquivir; The mountain, in the Matterhorn (1939) and Mount Everest (1942).

Joseph Peyre has also devoted several books to his native Béarn, The Pit and the house, my Bearn basque to the sea, and the Basque Country: Basque John (illustrated by Ramiro Arrue), The Bridge of spells.

Posterity His memory still lives, in Vic-Bihl taurine where tradition persists. The "trophy Joseph Peyre, presented annually by the Peña Garlin of taurine, rewards the triumph of novilladas summer.

Aydie, the birthplace of Peyre, is part of the canton of Garlin; College of Garlin named Joseph Peyre.

Works Sur la terrasse, 1922 Francis Carco, 1923 Les Complices, 1928 Xénia, préface by Joseph Kessel, 1930 L'Escadron blanc, 1931 Le Chef à l'étoile d'argent, 1933 Sous l'étendard vert, 1934 Coups durs, 1935 Sang et Lumières, 1935 L'Homme de choc, 1936 Roc-Gibraltar, 1937 De cape et d'épée, 1938 Matterhorn, 1939 Croix du sud, 1942 Mont Everest, 1942 Proie des ombres, 1943 Romanesque Tanger, 1943 Sahara éternel, 1944 Un soldat chez les hommes, 1946 Mallory et son dieu, 1947 La Tour de l'or, 1947 L'Étang Réal, 1949 La Légende du goumier Saïd, 1950 Inoa, 1951 De mon Béarn à la mer basque, 1952 Guadalquivir, 1952 Jean le Basque, 1953 La Passion selon Séville..., 1953 Le Puits et la Maison , 1955 Les Quatre Capitaines, 1956 De sable et d'or, 1957 Une fille de Saragosse, 1957 Pays basque, Les Albums des Guides bleus, 1957 Souvenirs d'un enfant, 1958 Le Pont des sorts, 1959 Le Pré aux ours, 1959 Cheval piaffant - un Basque chez les Sioux, 1960 Le Plan du soleil, 1960 Les Lanciers de Jerez, 1961 Les Remparts de Cadix, 1962 L'Alcade de San Juan, 1963 Feu et sang de juillet, 1964