Emmanuel Bove

Emmanuel Bove born Emmanuel Bobovnikoff the April 20th 1898 with Paris of a Russian father and a Luxembourg mother is a writer French.

Biography

With 14ans it decides to become novelist. It follows its schooling to the Alsatian Ecole until in 1910. It continues then its studies with the Calvin college of Geneva. At this period his/her father lives, without to have left his mother, with English a Emily Overweg which will be a determining meeting for its writing. In 1915 it is sent in pension in England where it finishes its schooling. In 1916 it returns to Paris, it lives there in a precarious situation.

In 1921 it marries Suzanne Vallois and settles in the suburbs of Vienna. It is in Austria which that it begins its first books, much of popular novels published under the pseudonym of Jean Vallois. In 1922 it returns to Paris and only saw.

In 1923 his wife joined it with Paris. The same year it makes its beginnings in journalism. In 1923 Colette notices one of her news and proposes to him to publish it, it then brings to My Friends to him whose publication in 1924 will be a success. In 1928 it meets Louise Ottensooser who introduces it into the artistic mediums. The same year it gains the Prix Figuière.

During the period which followed it publishes regularly until the Second world war, of March 1940 July it is mobilized as worker 1943. Wishing to join London he refuses the any publication lasting the period of occupation. In 1942 he manages to join Algiers where he will write his last three novels: the Trap , Departure in the night and Withdrawal of case . These last works describe the turbid medium of collaboration and uncertainties of the time. It published two of them: the Trap and Departure in the night in 1945. Of fragile health, very weakened by an infectious illness contracted during its of Algiers exile, Emmanuel Bove dies on July 13rd, 1945 at the 47 years age of Cachexie and heart failure.

Principal works

Whereas Emmanuel Bove was regarded pre-war period as one of the principal French writers, its work, quickly fallen into the lapse of memory with the Release, remained inalienable a long time before being republished as from the years 1970.

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