Bertrand Poirot-Delpech

Bertrand Poirot-Delpech (born February 10, 1929 in Paris ; † November 14, 2006 there ) was a French writer and journalist .

Bertrand Poirot-Delpech had been a member of the Académie française since 1986 and was a literary critic for the French daily Le Monde for half a century . He was well known in his native France. People around him often just called him BPD . On his death, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin recognized him as an incomparable defender of the French language .

Books

• 1958: Le Grand Dadais , (German Der große Tunichtgut . Hamburg 1959)
• 1960: La Grasse Matinée
• 1962: L'Envers de l'eau
• 1966: Au soir le soir
• 1969: Finie la comédie
• 1970: La Folle de Lituanie
• 1973: Les Grands de ce monde
• 1976: La Légende du siècle
• 1979: Saïd et moi
• 1980: Marie Duplessis
• 1981: Features
• 1982: Le Couloir du dancing
• 1985: L'Été 36
• 1986: Bonjour Sagan
• 1987: Monsieur Barbie n'a rien à dire
• 1988: Le Golfe de Gascogne
• 1989: Traversées
• 1994: L'Amour de l'humanité
• 1995: Diagonals
• 1997: L'Alerte, théâtre
• 1998: Théâtre d'ombres, journal
• 1998: Papon: un crime de bureau
• 1999: Monsieur le Prince
• 2001: J'écris Paludes
• 2002: J'ai pas pleuré (avec Ida Grinspan)

Web links

• Literature by and about Bertrand Poirot-Delpech in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)