Georges Hyvernaud
Georges Hyvernaud [ ʒɔʁʒ ivɛʁno ] (born February 20, 1902 in Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente near Angoulême , † March 24, 1983 in Paris ) was a French writer .
Career
Hyvernaud was drafted into the army in 1939 and was taken prisoner by Germans during the Western campaign in May 1940 in northern France . He spent the next five years in an officers' camp (Oflag) in Pomerania.
After the war, Hyvernaud worked as a teacher again. In 1949 he published his first book “La Peau et les Os” (“Skin and Bones”), which was published by Suhrkamp in 2010 in a German translation by Julia Schoch . The novel "Le Wagon à vaches" ("The Viehwaggon"), published in 1953, was published in 2007 in German.
It was only after his death that Hyvernaud's works were noticed by a larger public in France.
Works in German
- The cattle wagon. Novel. With a letter from the author . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2007 ISBN 978-3-518-22422-9
- Übers. Julia Schoch: skin and bones. Novel. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-518-22456-4
Web links
- Literature by and about Georges Hyvernaud in the catalog of the German National Library
- Author's homepage on the website of the Suhrkamp Verlag
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clear and Drastic , Der Spiegel, January 5, 2011. Short recommendation
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hyvernaud, Georges |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente near Angoulême |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 24, 1983 |
| Place of death | Paris |