Jean Dutourd

Jean Dutourd , born the January 14th 1920 with Paris is a Romancier and Essayiste French.

Biography

Jean Dutourd is elected member of the French Academy the November 30th 1978. He is also elected with the national Academy of Sciences, Belles-Lettres and Arts of Bordeaux, where he is received the May 8th 1989. Jean Dutourd was during many years leader-writer of the daily newspaper France Soir. Gaulliste of left, he is candidate with the legislative elections of 1962 pennies the colors of the democratic Union of work. Later, he will affirm himself and will be recognized as being largely line.

He holds a chronicle of fifteen minutes on Radio Courtesy (Monday, 19:30) since the creation of the radio in 1987, chronic weekly magazine until 2007, then semi-monthly since then.

He intervened a long time almost daily during the emission of RTL presented by Philippe Bouvard: the Famous persons. For a few years, he has answered the every day by telephone two questions raised by Philippe Bouvard and, once in the year, goes to the emission in the capacity as guest of honor.

He is member of the support group of the movement the Unit capétienne, where one finds the names of Marcel Jullian, André Castelot, Gonzague Saint-Breaking, Reynald Secher, Georges Bordonove.

He is president of association " Defense of the French language ".

Little before its entry with the French Academy, it was the target of an attack which destroyed its Parisian apartment, the July 14th 1978, attack which did not make any victim.

Work

1946 : the Complex of César , test (Gallimard)
1947: the Lunch of Monday , novel (Robert Laffont)
1947: Galère , poems (Editions of the Barn-Old women)
1948: the Tree , theater (Gallimard)
1950: Small Don Juan , treated seduction (Robert Laffont)
1950: a head of dog , novel (Gallimard)
1952: With the Good Butter , scenes of the life under the Occupation, novel (Gallimard)
1955: Doucin , novel (Gallimard)
1956: Taxis of the Marne , test (Gallimard)
1958: Fund and the Form , alphabetical test on morals and the style, volume I (Gallimard)
1959: Easily deceived the , tales (Gallimard)
1959: the significant Heart , test (Gallimard)
1960: Fund and the Form , volume II (Gallimard)
1963: Rivarol , test and choice of texts (Mercure de France)
1963: Horrors of the love , novel (Gallimard)
1964: End of the Redskins , moralities (Gallimard)
1965: Fund and the Form , volume III (Gallimard)
1965: the Half-pay (Gallimard)
1967: Pluche or Love of art , novel (Flammarion)
1969: Small Newspaper , 1965-1966 (Julliard)
1970: the School of the simpletons , test (Flammarion)
1971: the Twilight of the wolves , moralities (Flammarion)
1971: the Paradox of the critic , test (Flammarion)
1972: the Paradox of the critic , followed Seven Seasons , critical dramatic (Flammarion)
1972: the Spring of the life , novel (Flammarion)
1973: Notebook of an emigrant (Flammarion)
1976: 2024 , novel (Flammarion)
1977: Mascareigne , novel (Julliard)
1977: Five years in the savages , test (Flammarion)
1978: Mornings of Chaillot , test (S.P.L.)
1978: Things as they are , talks (Stock)
1979: complete Works , volume I (Flammarion)
1980: Happiness and other ideas , test (Flammarion)
1980: Speech of reception to the French Academy (Flammarion)
1980: Memories of Mary Watson , novel (Flammarion)
1981: a friend who wants you good (Flammarion)

1982: Of France considered as a disease (Flammarion)

1983: Henri or State education , novel (Flammarion)

1983: Socialism with head of linnet (Flammarion)

1984: complete Works , volume II (Flammarion)

1984: the Septennate of the thin cows (Flammarion)

1985: the Bad Spirit, discussions with J. - E. Hallier (Orban)

1985: the stupidest Left of the world (Flammarion)

1986: Against the wearinesses of the life (Flammarion)

1986: the Spectrum of the pink (Flammarion)

1987: the Seminar of Bordeaux , novel (Flammarion)

1989: That moves in the ready-made clothes (Flammarion)

1990: Conversation with the General (Flammarion)

1990: the Thoughts (Editions of Seek-Midday)

1990: Far from Edinburgh (Editions of Fallois)

1991: Portraits of women , novel (Flammarion)

1992: Occasional verse (Editions of Seek-Midday)

1993: the Assassin , novel (Flammarion)

1994: Public domain (Flammarion)

1994: the Old Man and France (Flammarion)

1995: the Seventh Day, accounts of biblical times (Flammarion)

1996: the Field-marshal von Bonaparte , Uchronie (Flammarion)

1996: Scenes of kind and tables of time (Guy Trédaniel)

1997: French trilogy ( the Seminar of Bordeaux , Portraits of women , the Assassin ) (Flammarion)

1997: Scandal of the virtue (Editions of Fallois)

1997: Newspaper of the years of plague , 1986-1991 (Plon)

1998: Large slam in heart (Editions of the Rock)

1999: With the research of French lost (Plon)

2000: Jeannot: memories of a child , memories (Plon)

2001: the Century of the extinct lights (Plon)

2006: pearls and the pigs (Plon)

2007: Leporello (Plon)

complete Works , volume III (Flammarion)

; Translations

the Muses speak , of Truman Capote

the Eye of Apollo , of Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Old Man and the Sea , of Ernest Hemingway

Rewards

1946 : Stendhal price, for the Complex of César
1950: Courteline price, for a head of dog
1952: Interallied Price, for With the Good Butter
1961: Price Prince Pierre of Monaco, for the whole of its work
2001: Saint-Simon price, for Jeannot, memories of a child
2005: Catholic Grand Prix of Literature, for Diary of a death

Decorations

Large Officer of the Legion of Honor
Commander of the national order of the Merit
Commander of Arts and the Letters

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