Catherine Paysan
Catherine Paysan (actually Annie Roulette , born August 4, 1926 in Aulaines , Département Sarthe , † April 22, 2020 in Le Mans ) was a French writer .
biography
Catherine Paysan was the daughter of Auguste Roulette, a gendarme and later employee at a local government, and the elementary school teacher Marthe Roulette. After her childhood in Aulaines, she attended high school in Le Mans . At the age of 18 she published her first collection of poems Tous deux . Then she studied for the teaching profession. As a young teacher she was transferred to Speyer , which was then occupied by the French , where she lived from 1946 to 1948. She dealt with this time many decades later in the autobiographical novel L'amour là-bas en Allemagne , published in 2006 . After returning to France, she worked as a primary school teacher in Paris .
Paysan's first novel was published in 1961. In 1967 she received the Prix des Libraires for her novel Les Feux de la Chandeleur . The 1972 film adaptation of Candlelight was an official contribution to the Cannes Film Festival .
From 1974 Catherine Paysan devoted herself exclusively to writing. In April 2020, she died at the age of 93 in a hospital in Le Mans.
Awards (selection)
- 1967: Prix des Libraires for Les Feux de la Chandeleur
- 2000: Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle for Les Désarmés
- Knight of the Legion of Honor
Works
Novels
- 1961: Nous autres les Sanchez , Prix de la Société des gens de lettres
- 1962: My father and us , Translator Maria Honeit. Hamburg: Wegner
- 1963: Histoire d'une salamandre
- 1964: Je m'appelle Jéricho
- 1967: My name is Jéricho , translator Jutta and Theodor Knust. Gütersloh: S. Mohn
- 1966: Les Feux de la Chandeleur
- 1968: Le nègre des sables
- 1974: L'empire du taureau
- 1978: Le clown de la rue Montorgeuil
- 1981: Dame suisse sur un canapé de reps vert
- 1984: Le rendez-vous de Strasbourg
- 1991: La route vers la fiancée
Autobiographies and autobiographical novels
- 1971: Comme l'or d'un anneau , Prix Sully-Olivier de Serres
- 1976: Pour le plaisir
- 1987: La colline d'en face
- 2000: Le passage du SS
- 2006: L'amour là-bas en Allemagne
Essays
- 2003: La prière parallèle
Novellas
- 1963: Les faiseurs de chance , Prix des écrivains de l'Ouest
- 2000: Les désarmés
Volumes of poetry
- 1944: Tous deux
- 1956: Ecrit pour l'âme des cavaliers
- 1967: La musique du feu , Prix Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
- 1989: 52 poèmes pour une année
Plays
- 1969: Les oiseaux migrateurs
- 1983: Attila Dounai
Records
- 1964: Chansons pour moi toute seule
Movies
- 1968: The darned grandfather (Ce sacré grand-père) based on the novel Je m'appelle Jéricho
- 1972: Candlelight (Les Feux de la Chandeleur) , directed by Serge Korber , with Annie Girardot , Jean Rochefort and Claude Jade
- 1977: Histoire d'une salamandre (TV movie)
- 1997: L'Empire du taureau (TV movie)
- 2009: Love undesirable - a prisoner of war in France , documentary by Barbara Stupp for WDR about L'amour là-bas en Allemagne
literature
- Michèle Rachot: Une marginalité flamboyante . Harmattan, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-296-01966-8 .
- Rainer Riemenschneider and Evelyne Brandts (eds.): Déchirures culturelles, expériences allemandes. Les rapports de civilizations dans l'œuvre de Catherine Paysan [avec une allocation de Frédéric Mitterand]. L'Harmattan, Paris, 2012, ISBN 978-2-296-96191-3 .
Web links
- Catherine Paysan's website
- Literature by and about Catherine Paysan in the catalog of the German National Library
- Catherine Paysan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- French memories of Speyer in the post-war period. (No longer available online.) In: rheinneckarweb.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 23, 2020 (report on a reading in Speyer). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Catherine Paysan est décédée le 22 avril 2020 , accessed on April 28, 2020
- ↑ In 2010 Catherine Paysan donated the manuscript of this novel to the Speyer City Archives. See: speyer-aktuell.de of November 3, 2010. The manuscript is archived under the number 192–12.
- ^ Serge Danilo: Catherine Paysan est décédée. In: ouest-france.fr . April 22, 2020, accessed April 22, 2020 (French).
- ↑ Love unwanted - a prisoner of war in France: A film by Barbara Stupp. In: wdr.de. November 6, 2009, archived from the original on April 15, 2010 ; accessed on April 23, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Paysan, Catherine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roulette, Annie (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aulaines , Sarthe department |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 2020 |
| Place of death | Le Mans |