François Cheng

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François Cheng (born August 30, 1929 in Nanchang , China ) is a writer , poet and calligrapher .

François Cheng

Life

Cheng comes from a family of writers and studied at Nanjing University . In 1949, because of his enthusiasm for the French language and culture, he decided to settle in France (he has been a French citizen since 1973). Since 1960 he has pursued a university career, among other things as a language teacher for students at the School of Oriental Languages ​​( Ecole des langues orientales ) in Paris . In addition, he has emerged as a translator of poems.

Works

  • Analysis of formal de l'œuvre poétique d'un auteur des Tang: Zhang Ruoxu (1970)
  • Le Pousse-pousse, de Lao She (traduction, 1973)
  • L'Écriture poétique chinoise, Éditions du Seuil, (1977 and 1996)
  • Vide et plein: le langage pictural chinois, Éditions du Seuil, (1979 and 1991)
  • L'Espace du rêve: mille ans de peinture chinoise, Phébus, (1980)
  • Sept poètes français (1983)
  • Henri Michaux, sa vie, son œuvre (1984)
  • Chu Ta: le génie du trait, Phébus, (1986)
  • Some Reflections on Chinese Poetic Language and its Relation to Chinese Cosmology in The Vitality of the Lyric Voice (1986)
  • The Reciprocity of Subject and Object in Chinese Poetic Language in Poetics East and West (1988)
  • De l'arbre et du rocher, poèmes, Fata Morgana, (1989)
  • Souffle-Esprit, Éditions du Seuil, (1989 and 2006)
  • Entre source et nuage, Voix de poètes dans la Chine d'hier et d'aujourd'hui Albin Michel (1990 and 2002)
  • Saisons à vie, poèmes, Encre marine, (1993)
  • Trente-six poèmes d'amour, poèmes, Unes, (1997)
  • Quand les pierres font signe (1997) (with Fabienne Verdier)
  • Le Dit de Tianyi, Albin Michel, (1998) Prix Femina
  • Double chant, Encre Marine, (1998) Prix Roger Caillois
  • Shitao: la saveur du monde, Phébus, (1998) Prix André-Malraux
  • Cantos toscans, Unes, (1999)
  • D'où jaillit le chant, Phébus, (2000)
  • Poésie chinoise, poèmes, Albin Michel, (2000)
  • Et le souffle devient signe, Iconoclaste, (2001)
  • Qui dira notre nuit, poèmes, Arfuyen, (2001)
  • L'éternité n'est pas de trop, Albin Michel, (2002)
  • Le Dialogue, Une passion pour la langue française, Desclée de Brouwer, (2002)
  • Le Long d'un amour, poèmes, Arfuyen, (2003)
  • Le Livre du vide median, poèmes, Albin Michel, (2004)
  • Que nos instants soient d'accueil, avec Francis Herth, Les Amis du Livre contemporain, (2005)
  • À l'orient de tout, poèmes, Gallimard, (2005)
  • Cinq méditations sur la beauté, Albin Michel, (2006) ( ISBN 2226172157 )
  • Abundance and Emptiness: The Language of Chinese Painting , Merve, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-88396-198-1
  • Five meditations on beauty , Beck, Munich 2008, ( ISBN 978-3-406-56932-6 )
  • Five meditations on death: and on life , Beck, Munich 2015, ( ISBN 978-3-406-68319-0 )

Awards

In 2001 he received the Grand Prix of the Académie française and on June 13, 2002 he was the first Asian to be elected a member.

Dubbing

  • Claire Vazart (* 1964): Toi le féminin for soprano and piano (= No. 6 from the song cycle Au Féminin , in which texts by Léopold Sédar Senghor , Paul Éluard , Carole Zalberg (* 1965), Claudine Helft and Georges Sédir are set to music are)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography and reviews of works by François Cheng at perlentaucher.de (accessed on November 14, 2008)
personal data
SURNAME Cheng, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sino-French writer, poet and calligrapher
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Nanchang , China