In memory of the writer Gilles Lapouge
Writer and journalist Gilles Lapouge, died at the age of 96 on July 31, 2020 © RFI
By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint
3 min
He was an absolutely delicious man.
With a soft voice, modest erudition, he had a nonchalance that made his presence precious.
Gilles Lapouge passed away on July 31 at the age of 96.
Journalist, writer, he was the author of some thirty books, stories, novels and essays.In his memory, let's end the year in style by listening again on the RFI antenna to the one who will forever remain the most Brazilian of writers French.
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Cover of Gilles Lapouge's ultimate novel © Arthaud
Gilles Lapouge has been rewarded many times: with the Deux-Magots prize and the Louis Guilloux prize for
The battle of Wagram
, the Cazes prize for
The Copenhagen fire
, the Joseph Kessel prize for
The border mission,
the Femina essay prize in 2007 for
L'encre du Voyageur
or the France-Télévisions and Goncourt des Animaux prize for
The donkey and the bee
and finally the Pierre-Ier de Monaco prize for all of his work.
Texts nourished by his curiosity, his openness to the world, he who was born in the Alpes de Haute Provence in 1923, who had spent his childhood in Algeria, where his father was a soldier, and who had chosen Brazil in 1950 as his land election where he was correspondent for several decades.
The show is structured around three archives with Gilles Lapouge: an exchange in Saint-Malo in 2014 at the Étonnants Voyageurs festival, his very last interview in “Littérature sans Frontières” in 2015 where he told us about his final novel
Nuits tranquilles à Belem
published by Artaud which took place in Brazil, and to begin with an extract from the program "L'actualité littéraire" by Cella Minart at the end of the 90s where he was reading an extract from his book
Besoin de mirage
.
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