Jean-Jacques Gautier (Author)
Jean-Jacques Gautier (born November 4, 1908 in Essômes-sur-Marne , Département Aisne , † April 20, 1986 ) was a French writer, theater critic and essayist .
Life
Gautier spent his childhood in Dieppe ( Département Seine-Maritime ) and studied at the humanities faculty at the University of Caen . In 1934 he became an editor at the Écho de Paris and switched to the newspaper L'Époque when it was founded . After the beginning of World War II , the Germans arrested him as a prisoner of war. When he was released in 1941, he became a nurse and wrote under the pseudonym "Le Boulevardier" for Figaro until it was discontinued in 1942, theater reviews and columns about Paris. Pierre Brisson engaged him again in 1944 as a theater critic for Figaro . Gautier later received the post of General Secretary of the Comédie-Française , which he gave up in 1946 because of his work as a critic.
For his Histoire d'un fait divers , Gautier received the Prix Goncourt and was elected to the Académie française in 1972. He is the bearer of the Croix de guerre 1939-1945 and commander of the Legion of Honor .
Works
- Histoire d'un fait divers , 1946.
- Le Puits aux trois vérités , 1949, The fountain to the threefold truth. Roman, German translation by Margit Pflagner . Forum Verlag, Vienna 1962.
- Une femme prisonnière (German: A prisoner woman ), 1986
- Act without a perpetrator, 1949, Walter Rau
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean-Jacques Gautier in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
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| SURNAME | Gautier, Jean-Jacques |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer, theater critic and essayist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Essômes-sur-Marne |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1986 |