Marius-Ary Leblond

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Marius-Ary Leblond is the pseudonym of two writers, historians, journalists and art critics from the island of Reunion . In 1909 they received the Prix ​​Goncourt for the novel En France .

Life

The two authors used the pseudonyms Marius Leblond and Ary Leblond and were:

They were cousins ​​and when they went to school in Paris they decided to write under a pseudonym formed after two women they were in love with.

Your novel En France is about two Creoles studying at the Sorbonne .

They published other novels under the pseudonym, non-fiction books (including on Madagascar and French colonial history), books on art and literature ( e.g. on Émile Verhaeren ) and essays ( e.g. on Leconte de Lisle ).

In 1906 they received the Académie francaise literary prize for La Grande île de Madagascar and again in 1937 for Vercingétorix . In 1932 they received the Grand prix Lasserre and in 1943 the Grand prix de l'Empire.

literature

  • Norbert Dodille: Goncourt colonial: Marius-Ary Leblond pour En France (1909), in: Katherine Ashley (ed.), Prix Goncourt, 1903–2003: essais critiques, Peter Lang, Bern 2004, p. 59

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Information on Marius Leblond in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
  2. Information on Ary Leblond in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .