Marius-Ary Leblond
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:
- "Marius Leblond", actually Georges Athénas (born February 26, 1877 in Saint-Denis ; May 8, 1953 in Paris ). He was secretary to Marshal Joseph Gallieni during World War I from 1914 to 1916 and was in command of the Legion of Honor . He directed the magazine La Vie and was a member of the Académie des sciences coloniales.
- "Ary Leblond", actually Alexandre Merlot, called Aimé Merlo (born July 30, 1880 in Saint-Pierre ; April 7, 1958 in La Réunion ). He was an officer in the Legion of Honor . In 1911 he became a curator at the Musée de la France d'outre-mer.
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
- Biography of both authors
- Information on Marius-Ary Leblond in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on Marius Leblond in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- ↑ Information on Ary Leblond in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .