Émile Henriot (; 3 March 1889 – 14 April 1961) was a French poet, novelist, essayist and literary critic.

Biography

A son of the caricaturist Henri Maigrot, known under the pen name Henriot, he fought in the

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. He first wrote as a journalist for '' Temps'' in the inter-war period. He became literary critic for ''

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'', the heir of ''Temps'' on the

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, and for them coined the term '

nouveau roman The Nouveau Roman (, "new novel") is a type of French novel in the 1950s and 60s that diverged from traditional literary genres. Émile Henriot coined the term in an article in the popular French newspaper ''Le Monde'' on May 22, 1957 to describ ...

' in 1957. He was elected a member of the

Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

in 1946 at the same time as

Édouard Le Roy Édouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy (; 18 June 1870 in Paris – 10 November 1954 in Paris) was a French philosopher and mathematician. Life Le Roy entered the ''École Normale Supérieure'' in 1892, and received the '' agrégation'' in mathema ...

Works

* ''Poèmes à Sylvie'' (1906) * ''Eurynice'' (1907) * ''Petite suite italienne'' (1909) * ''Jardins à la Française'' (1911) * ''L’Instant et le Souvenir'' (1912) * ''Vignettes romantiques et turqueries'' (1912) * ''À quoi rêvent les jeunes gens ?'' (1913) * ''La Flamme et les Cendres'' (1914) * ''Bellica'' (1915) * ''Le carnet d’un dragon dans les tranchées'' (1918) * ''Valentin'' (1918) * ''Le diable à l’hôtel ou les plaisirs imaginaires'' (1919) * ''Temps innocents'' (1921) * ''Courrier littéraire I'' (1922) * ''Aquarelles'' (1922) * ''Aventures de Sylvain Dutourd'' (1923) * Livres et portraits, 3 vol. (1923–1927) * ''Aricie Brun ou les Vertus bourgeoises'' (1924),

Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française The is a French literary award, created in 1914, and given each year by the Académie Française. Along with the Prix Goncourt The Prix Goncourt ( , "The Goncourt Prize") is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the ...

* ''Stendhaliana'' (1924) * ''Courrier littéraire II'' (1925) * ''Les livres du second rayon'' (1925) * ''Promenades pittoresques sur les bords de la Seine'' (1926) * ''L’enfant perdu'' (1926) * ''Éloge de la curiosité'' (1927) * ''Journal de bord'' (1927) * Esquisses et notes de lecture (1928) * ''Alfred de Musset'' (1928) * ''Promenades italiennes'' (1928) * ''L’art de former une bibliothèque'' (1928) * ''Romanesques et romantiques'' (1930) * ''Les occasions perdues'' (1931) * ''Épistoliers et mémorialistes'' (1931) * ''La marchande de couronnes'' (1932) * ''En Provence'' (1932) * ''Courrier littéraire : XVIIe siècle'' (1933) * ''Le pénitent de Psalmodi'' (1933) * ''Vers l’oasis en Algérie'' (1935) * ''Portraits de femmes, d’Héloïse à Marie Bashkirtseff'' (1935) * ''Tout va finir'' (1936) * ''Portraits de femmes, de Marie de France à Katherine Mansfield'' (1937) * ''Le livre de mon père'' (1938) * ''Recherche d’un château perdu'' (1941) * ''Le pèlerinage espagnol'' (1942) * ''Quatre nouvelles'' (1944) * ''Poètes français'', 2 vol. (1944–1946) * ''Naissances'' (1945) * ''Courrier littéraire : XIIIe siècle'', 2 vol. (1945) * ''Beautés du Brésil'' (1946) * ''Courrier littéraire : XIXe siècle, autour de Chateaubriand'' (1948) * ''La rose de Bratislava'' (1948) * ''Courrier littéraire : XIXe siècle, Stendhal, Mérimée et leurs amis'' (1948) * ''Les fils de la louve'' (1949) * ''Tout va recommencer sans nous'' (1951) * ''Courrier littéraire III'' (1953) * ''Courrier littéraire : XIXe-XXe siècles'', 2 vol. (1955–1956) * ''Au bord du temps'' (1958) * ''On n’est pas perdu sur la terre'' (1960)

External links

Académie française

Publications by and about Émile Henriot
in the catalogue Helveticat of the

Swiss National Library The Swiss National Library (, , , ) is the national library of Switzerland. Part of the Federal Office of Culture, it is charged with collecting, cataloging and conserving information in all fields, disciplines, and media connected with Switzerla ...

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