Charles Dobzynski (April 8, 1929

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- 26 September 2014) was a French poet, journalist and translator.

Life

His family emigrated to France, where he was barely a year old. He narrowly escaped deportation during

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. he published his first poem in 1944, in a youth newspaper of the Resistance. In 1949,

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presented his first poems in ''

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''. On the proposal of

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, he entered the newspaper's editors ''

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''. He was a

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and

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. He was an editor of the magazine ''

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'', with

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, and Pierre Gamarra. He is

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, a member of the

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, and president of the jury for the Apollinaire prize.

Awards

* 2005

Prix Goncourt The Prix Goncourt ( , "The Goncourt Prize") is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward of only 10 euros, but resul ...

de la Poésie

Works

English Translations

Bibliography

* ''Notre amour est pour demain'' - Seghers, 1951 * ''Au clair de l’amour'' - Seghers, 1955 * ''D’une voix commune'' - Seghers, 1962 * ''L’Opéra de l’espace'' - Gallimard, 1963 * ''Capital terrestre'' - E.F.R. * ''Un Cantique pour Massada'' - Europe poésie, 1976 * ''Arbre d’identité'', Rougerie, 1976 * ''Callifictions'' - 1977 * ''Table des éléments'' - Belfond, 1978 * ''Délogiques'' - Belfond, 1981 * ''Une vie de ventrilogue'' - 1981 * ''40 polars en miniature'' - Rougerie 1983 * ''Liturgie profane'' - Le Verbe et l'empreinte 1983 * ''La vie est un orchestre'' - Belfond, 1988, Prix Max Jacob 1992 * ''Alphabase Rougerie,'' 1992 * ''Fable chine'' - Rougerie, 1996 * ''Géode'' - éd. Phi, 1998 * * ''Journal alternatif'', Bernard Dumerchez, 2000 * ''Les Heures de Moscou'' - Europe/Poésie * ''L'Escalier des Questions'' - L'Amourier, 2003 * ''Corps à réinventer'' - éd. de la Différence, 2005 * ''La Réalité d'à côté'' - éd. L'Amourier, 2005 * ''La Scène primitive,'' novel - éd. de La Différence, 2006 () * ''A revoir, la mémoire'' - éd. Phi 2006 * ''Gestuaire des sports'' - éd. Le Temps des cerises, 2006 () *

References

External links

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