Jean-Henri Azéma
Jean-Henri Azéma , called Jean, (born December 28, 1913 in Sainte-Denis on Réunion , † October 13, 2000 in Buenos Aires ) was a French poet.
Azéma came from the island of Réunion. He went to Paris in 1933 and studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris and then law at the Sorbonne , where he also attended literature courses. In Paris he became a journalist and came under the influence of right-wing intellectuals like Robert Brasillach and Pierre Drieu la Rochelle and the Action française . In World War II he fought with the colonial troops, for which he received the Croix de Guerre, but then collaborated with the German occupiers and was the voice of the Vichy government on Radio Paris. In 1944 he went to Germany with the retreating German troops. He was a supporter of Jacques Doriot's right-wing Parti populaire français (PPF) and was imprisoned for three months for criticizing Pierre Laval in a newspaper article. Since he admired Léon Degrelle , he wanted to join the Waffen-SS, but had to drop out of officer training because he had ideological problems with one of the teachers. Instead, he took part in the radio station Radio Patrie in Bad Mergentheim by André Algarron .
After the war he went into exile in Argentina via Switzerland in 1948. In France, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia and was only pardoned in 1970.
In Argentina he initially made his way as a dock worker and waiter, and then became a journalist. He remained politically active and, after supporting the revolution of Víctor Paz Estenssoro in 1952, also temporarily went to Bolivia. After returning to Buenos Aires in 1954, he founded a publishing agency.
In 1978 he returned - now pardoned - for the first time to his homeland Réunion and in 1979 published the volume of poetry Olograph about the island and his exile. He has been working on the tape since 1955 and received the Prix des Mascareignes of the Association des Écrivains de Langue française in 1978 . Other works followed such as Au soleil de Dodos in 1990. In the same year he visited his home island again.
After his death, his ashes were scattered in Réunion and Mauritius.
He is the father of the historian Jean-Pierre Azéma (* 1937), who specializes in the Resistance and the Vichy regime. In addition to three sons from his first marriage, he also had a son from his second marriage in Argentina.
Fonts
- Olographe 1979
- D'Azur à perpétuité 1979
- Le pétrolier couleur antaque 1982
- Le Dodo vavangueur 1986
- Au soleil des dodos 1990
- Rhum Blanc 1996
- Rhum marron 1998
- Archives en Chair Vive 1999
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Azéma, Jean-Henri |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Azéma, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sainte-Denis on Réunion |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 13, 2000 |
| Place of death | Buenos Aires |