Gilbert Prouteau

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Gilbert Prouteau (born June 14, 1917 in Nesmy ; died August 2, 2012 in Cholet ) was a French writer and athlete .

Life

Gilbert Prouteau was active as a track and field athlete and was second in the triple jump at the French championships in 1939 , after the war he was 6th on the best list in Europe in 1946. He was nominated for the London Olympics in 1948 , but could not compete due to an injury. Instead, Prouteau worked as a reporter for the weekly Carrefour and took part in the Summer Olympics art competition. He won the bronze medal in the poetry category for his poem about a men's relay team, Rythme du Stade , and the gold medal went to Aale Tynni from Finland .

Prouteau wrote about fifty books. The novel Le Sexe des Anges (1952) was shortlisted for the Prix ​​Goncourt . The biographical novel Le Dernier défi de Georges Clemenceau received the Prix ​​Broquette-Gonin in 1980 . Prouteau's other awards included the Prix ​​Sainte-Beuve for La peur des femmes in 1959 . In 2009 he received a lifetime achievement award (Le Prix de la carrière) from the Association de écrivains sportifs. In the last year of his life he was appointed commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .

Proteau made three films, La vie passionnée de Clémenceau (1953), which was shown in competition at the Festival de Cannes , Je m'appellerai Guillaume Apollinaire (1953) and Dieu a choisi Paris (1969) with Jean-Paul Belmondo .

Proteau lived in the Vendée , about which he published a book in 2010.

Works (selection)

  • Rythme du Stade . Poetry. Lugdunum, 1942 manuscript
  • La part du vent . Poetry. Ariane, 1947
  • (Ed.): Anthologie des textes sportifs de la littérature . Défense de la France, 1948 (Paris: Plon, 1972)
  • Season blanche . Amiot Dumont, 1951
  • Le Sexe des Anges . Novel. Grasset, 1952
    • The sex of the angels: Roman . Translation of Rudolf von Jouanne. Vienna: Zsolnay, 1965
  • Ball de match . Novel. Paris: Amiot-Dumont, 1954
  • La peur des femmes . Grasset, 1959
  • Tout est dans la fin . Robert Laffont, 1971
  • with Thierry Maulnier: L 'Honneur d'être juif . Paris: Laffont, 1971
  • Le Dernier Défi de Georges Clemenceau . Biography. France Empire, 1979
  • Le grand roman de Jules Verne : sa vie . Stock, 1979
  • La Nuit de l'île d'Aix ou le Crépuscule d'un dieu . Albin Michel, 1985
  • Gilles de Rais ou la Gueule du loup . Editions du Rocher, 1992
  • Je te dis qu'il faut vivre . Autobiography. Editions Hérault, 1998
  • Monsieur l'instituteur: l'âge d'or de laïque . Albin Michel, 2000
  • Je passe aux aveux. Entretiens avec Xavier Armange . Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire: Editions d'Orbestier, 2002 ISBN 978-2842380458
  • Les soleils de minuit . Editions Hérault, 2003
  • Rabelais en Vendée: la genèse d'un génie . Le Château-d'Olonne: Editions D'Orbestier, 2004
  • Les Orgues d'Hélène . Poetry. Écho Optique, 2007
  • Le Roman de la Vendée . Timeline. Gesture, 2010
  • Les mots de passe . Essay. Editions du Petit Pavé, 2013 (posthumous)

literature

  • Robert Chastagnol (Ed.): Le roman d'un rebelle, Gilbert Prouteau . Paris: J. Vuarnet, 1980 ISBN 2-86252-024-1 (text selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Backof: When you could win medals with art , review of an ARTE documentary about the art competition, Deutschlandfunk, July 24, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Prouteau, Gilbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and athlete
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Nesmy
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 2012
Place of death Cholet