Cédric Morgan, pen name of Jean-Yves Quenouille (born 1943,

Vannes Vannes (; br, Gwened) is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany in north-western France. It was founded over 2,000 years ago. History Celtic Era The name ''Vannes'' comes from the Veneti, a seafaring Celtic people who live ...

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Morbihan Morbihan ( , ; br, Mor-Bihan ) is a department in the administrative region of Brittany, situated in the northwest of France. It is named after the Morbihan (''small sea'' in Breton), the enclosed sea that is the principal feature of the coastl ...

) is a French writer. He has devoted himself to writing on the sidelines of a professional life in communication for global industrial groups (

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). He lives today mainly in Brittany.

Publications

*2014: ''Une femme simple'',

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Prix Breizh The prix Breizh is a French literary award bestowed under this name since 2001, on the initiative of Gwenn-Aël Bolloré. On that date, it succeeded the "Prix Bretagne" created in 1961. It crowns each year an author of Breton origin or friend of Br ...

2015 *2009: ''Kafka ramait le dimanche'', 2009,

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—faux polar *2005: ''Oublier l'orage'', éd. Phebus *2003: ''Le Bleu de la mer'', éd. Phebus — novel prize of the city of

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*1999: ''Le Bonheur en douce'', éd. Phebus — selection Prix des Libraires *1995: ''L'Enfant perdu'', éd. Phebus — selections Renaudot, Femina and Interallié *1993 ''Les ailes du Tigre'', éd. Phebus *1991: ''Cet hiver-là'', éd. Phebus Cédric Morgan created and edited a poetry journal, ''Incendits'', published between 1975 and 1995 with the help of the Centre National des Lettres, a magazine which published a number of contemporary poets, then little known, such as Hédi Kaddour and Roger Goffette

External links

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''Une femme singulière''
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Cédric Morgan
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