Adrien Bertrand

Adrien Bertrand , born the August 4th 1888 and dead the November 18th 1917, is a writer and Journaliste French. He obtained the Prix Goncourt in 1914 for his novel the Call of the ground (decreed in 1916).

Biography

Adrien Bertrand began his career as a journalist for several newspapers of topicality and arts persons where it presented his socialist ideas and diffused his surrealist poems. Dedicating a great admiration with Voltaire, it took again the character of Candide in several works. Adrien Bertrand was marked by the First World War in which it took part, which made him develop a thought antimilitarist which is omnipresent in its works.

Adrien Bertrand had left a capital to the Goncourt academy in order to reward for the poets for the whole of their work. The first Stock Exchange Goncourt/Adrien Bertrand was decreed in 1985 with Claude Roy; it since rewarded Yves Bonnefoy (1986), Andrée Chédid (2002) or Philippe Jaccottet (2003).

Publications

the Call of the ground , novel, 1916
the Storm on the garden of Ingenuous , philosophical novels, 1917
the orchard of Cypris , poetry, 1917

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