Roger Vercel

Roger Vercel is a French writer born on January 8th 1894 with the Mans and died on February 26th 1957 with Dinan.

Biography

Roger Vercel (born Roger Cretin, it took its pen name thereafter), was impassioned by the sea and the sailors (and although not having practically never taken the sea itself, the majority of its Romance S will be held within a maritime framework).

The First World War stopped its studies of letters. At the beginning of the war, because of its bad sight, he is stretcher-bearer on the battle fields of the north and the east of France. The army misses graded: it is encouraged to return to Saint-Cyr military school which it leaves officer (1). It will finish the war on the face of the East and will be demobilized only one year after the Armistice. It then joined Dinan where it is named in 1921 professor of letters to the College (2). It is there that it will die out in 1957.

Its memories of the war inspire some of its first books (Our father Trajan, Conan, Léna) but it is the maritime world which is in the middle of its work.

With Broad of the Eden is worth to him the Price of the Committee Fémina France-America in 1932. It obtains the Prix Goncourt in 1934 for Capitaine Conan .

Several of its works were carried to the screen:

  • Trailers , in 1941 (réal. Jean Grémillon, with Jean Gabin, Michele Morgan, Madeleine Renaud, Fernand Ledoux…),
  • Of Guesclin in 1949 (réal. Bernard de Latour, with Gisele Casadesus and… Louis de Funès, Gerard Oury…)
  • turbid water, 1949 (réal. Henri Calef, with Jean Vilar, Ginette Leclerc, Andre Valmy, Mouloudji…) from the news Deaf Lames is drawn.
  • the great bulwark , 1954 (réal. Jacques Pinoteau, with Nicole Courcel, Marie Mansard, Jean-Pierre Mocky…)
  • Captain Conan , 1996 (réal. Bertrand Tavernier, with Philippe Torreton, Samuel Bihan, Bernard Le Coq…)

Sources

  • Simone Vercel, " Roger Vercel, my père". Article published in the Humanity of September 19th, 1996.
  • Erwann Letilleul, Roger Vercel, maritime writer, the Fish-wagon n°142, p. 24-35, April 2001.

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