Armel Guerne

Armel Guerne Poet and translator born with Morges (Swiss) on April 1st 1911 and died in Marmande (Lot-et-Garonne) the October 9th 1980.

Biography

He is the son of Denis Guerne, industrialist with Morges, and of Angele Gohard. His/her parents return to France whereas it is nine years old. He continues his studies with the college of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer, before seeing himself cutting the vivres by his father. Helped by the family of its best friend Mounir Hafez, it can continue its studies. He is then professor in Syria before returning to France in 1934. With the Sorbonne, it founds with Roger Frétigny the Group of psychological examinations. Its first book Oraux is published in the editions of the Attic in 1934.

During the Second world war, it ceases any literary activity to be devoted to the actions of resistance: it engages in a British network of S.O.E, the network Prosper , at the sides of the chief of the network, Francis Suttill, of which he becomes the second. During the collapse of the network at the end of June 1943, it is stopped by the Gestapo, is interned in Fresnes then close to Compiegne, is sent to Buchenwald, but it succeeds in way escaping from the train and ends up joining London.

After the war, it translates many authors, in particular Novalis, Rilke, Hölderlin, the brothers Grimm, Melville, Virginia Woolf, Dürrenmatt, Elias Canetti, Lao Tseu and Kawabata, while continuing its personal work.

In 1960, it is withdrawn in the Lot-et-Garonne, in a windmill which it buys with Tourtrès, and it dies there in 1980, at the hospital of Marmande.

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