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Main works

Poetry

* ''Le cœur et les sens'' (1919) * ''Toi qui pâlis au nom de Vancouver'' (1924), Prix Valery Larbaud * ''Plongeantes Proues'' (1925) * ''L'Enfant prodigue'' (1927) * ''Statue de la fatigue'' Prix triennal de poésie 1934 * ''Marchands'' (1936) * ''La Mer de la Tranquillité'' (1938) * ''Âges'' (1950) * ''Usine à penser des choses tristes'' (1957) * ''Vie-Poésie'' (1961) * ''Le Festin d'attente'' (1963) * ''Le Jardin fixe'' (1969) * ''Saison cinq et quatre proses'' (1969) * ''L'Ego des neiges'' (1972) * ''Songes et spélonques'' (1973) * ''L'Encore'' (1975)

Novels and short stories

* ''Échec au temps'' (1945) * ''Juste ou la Quête d'Hélène'' (1953) * ''Comme si'' (1959) * ''Nouvelles du Grand Possible'' (1960) * ''Simul et autres cas'' (1963) * ''Nondum jam non'' (1966)

Essays

* ''Voir grand'' (1921), essai politique * ''Hitler n'est pas jeune'' (1940), pamphlet * ''Lettre aux jeunes Wallons'' (1960), essai politique * ''Le Poème et la langue'' (1967), essai littéraire

References

* France, Peter (Ed.) (1995). ''The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French.'' Oxford: Clarendon Press. .

External links

Marcel Thiry on wallonie-en-ligne.net
{{DEFAULTSORT:Thiry, Marcel Belgian poets in French 1897 births 1977 deaths Walloon movement activists Belgian military personnel of World War I Writers from Charleroi 20th-century Belgian poets Belgian male poets Prix Valery Larbaud winners 20th-century Belgian male writers