André Corthis, ''née'' Andrée Magdeleine Husson (15 April 1882 – 8 August 1952) was a 20th-century French writer. She received the
prix Femina
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in 1906. Andrée Husson is the niece of painter
Rodolphe Julian.
Biography
Andrée Husson spent part of her youth in Spain, a country she often evoked. At the age of twelve, she began to line up rhymes and compose poems. In June 1906, totally unknown at 21, she published her first volume of verse: ''Gemmes et Moires''. Six months later, all the illustrated magazines published her portrait and all the newspapers printed her name. She had just received a literary prize, the
Prix Femina
The Prix Femina is a French List of literary awards, literary prize awarded each year by an exclusively female jury. The prize, which was established in 1904, is awarded to French-language works written in prose or Verse (poetry), verse by male ...
, awarded annually by the female jury of the great social magazine of the time: ' and the sum of 5000 francs. She did not hide the influence of her masters:
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics ...
,
Henri de Régnier, and overall
Paul Verlaine.
Andrée Husson married Raymond Lécuyer. She inherited the
Académie Julian, the art gallery created in 1868 by her uncle, the painter
Rodolphe Julian.
After being closed during the war of 1939-1945, the Académie Julian was sold by Andrée Husson to Cécile Beldent and (1908–2010) to again be opened on Saturday 12 October 1946.
Her work ''L'Espagne de la victoire'' was an ode to
Francoist Spain.
Selected work
*1906: ''Gemmes et Moires'', collection of poetry, —
Prix Femina
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*1908: ''Mademoiselle Arguillis'' (Fasquelle)
*1910: ''Le Pauvre Amour de Doña Balbine'' (Fasquelle)
*1914: ''Le Pardon prématuré'' (Fasquelle)
*1917: ''Petites Vies dans la tourmente'' (Éditions
Pierre Lafitte)
*1919: ''Pour moi seule'', novel,
Albin Michel, coll. "Le Roman littéraire" —
Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française
*1920: ''Sa vraie femme'' (Fasquelle)
*1920: ''La Marâtre'', Albin Michel
*1921: ''L'Obsédé'', Albin Michel
*1923: ''L'Entraîneuse'', novel, Albin Michel
*1925: ''Le Pardon prématuré'', Joseph-Arthème
Fayard
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, Collection : Le Livre de demain ; 9
*1926: ''Victime expiatoire'', novel, Arthème Fayard et Cie ; coll. "Le Livre de demain" ; 41
*1927: ''Tourmentes'' (Fayard - Le Livre de Demain)
*1928: ''Les Rameaux rouges'', Éditions
Hachette, coll. "
Bibliothèque bleue"
*1928: ''Passion'',
Fayard
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et Cie éditeurs
*1928: ''La Danseuse impassible'' (Les Éditions des portiques)
*1929: ''La Fiancée perdue'' (A. Fayard et Cie)
*1930: ''Pèlerinages en Espagne : Saint-Jacques de Compostelle, Salamanque, Tolède, Saragosse'' (Fasquelle)
*1930: ''La Nuit incertaine'' (Bibliothèque-Charpentier, Fasquelle éditeurs)
*1931: ''Soledad'', novel (Albin Michel)
*1932: ''Appel de flammes'', novel (Albin Michel)
*1934: ''Le Printemps sous l'orage'', novel, Arthème Fayard et Cie
*1935: ''Le Merveilleux Retour'' (Albin Michel)
*1936: ''Du couvent aux Cortès'' (Arthème Fayard)
*1936: ''Le Cœur forcé'',
Éditions Gallimard, coll. "La Renaissance de la nouvelle"
*1937: ''La Chouette écartelée'', Arthème Fayard
*1938: ''Révoltées'' (Les Éditions de France)
*1938: ''Masques'', A. Fayard
*1939: ''Cris dans le ciel'', A. Fayard
*1941: ''Destinées'', A. Fayard
*1941: ''L'Espagne de la victoire'', A. Fayard
*1944: ''L'Otage'', A. Fayard
*1945: ''Séverine'', A. Fayard
*1946: ''Lettres anonymes'', A. Fayard
*1949: ''Le Mystère des Trois-Gours'', A. Fayard
*1951: ''La Mesure d'aimer'', A. Fayard
References
External links
André Corthison Babelio
André Corthison the site of the Académie française
Some poems by André CorthisV. ANDRÉ CORTHIS on ''
Revue des deux mondes''
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20th-century French non-fiction writers
Prix Femina winners
Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners
Writers from Paris
1882 births
1952 deaths
20th-century French women writers