Alain Lance
Alain Lance (born December 18, 1939 in Bonsecours , Normandy ) is a French writer, translator and educator. After graduating from high school in 1959, he studied German in Paris and Leipzig . He was a teacher in Paris and Iran . From 1985 to 1991 he headed the Institut français in Frankfurt am Main , then until 1994 the Institut français in Saarbrücken and then until 2004 the Parisian literary house Maison des écrivains et de la littérature .
He wrote poems that he published in France and translated Volker Braun , Franz Fühmann , Ingo Schulze and Christa Wolf into French. He lives in Paris. In 2001 he was awarded the Prix Guillaume Apollinaire for Temps criblé .
Autobiography
- Germany, for a lifetime. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3882215939 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Curriculum vitae on the website of the Saxon Academy of the Arts , accessed on October 16, 2012
- ↑ Information on the author on the website of the Maison des écrivains et de la littérature , accessed on October 17, 2012
- ^ Page of the German publisher on the author , accessed on October 17, 2012
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| SURNAME | Lance, Alain |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer, translator, educator and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonsecours (Seine-Maritime) |