Marius Grout (born 8 November 1903

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– 1 May 1946

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) was a French writer and poet.

Life

His father was a postman in St. Saire near

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. He chose teaching. In 1932, he joined the

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. In the late 1930s, he befriended a group of writers, which included Emile Danoën and his former pupil Pierre Aubery. In 1937 he published his first book, ''Kagawa'', through the Society of Friends. He won the

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in 1943 for his novel ''Passage of rights.'' He died at Le Havre and was buried in Incheville. A school is named after him in

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, a school in

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, and the Primary School in

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Works

* ''Kagawa'', biographie, 1937 * ''Le Poète et le Saint'', essai, 1938 * ''Le Déluge, théâtre'', 1939 * ''Musique d’Avent'', Paris, Gallimard, 1941 * ''Mysticisme et poésie'', Paris, Albin Michel, 1942 * ''Le vent se lève'', Paris, Gallimard, 1942 * ''Passage de l'homme'', Paris, Gallimard, 1943, Gallimard, Prix Goncourt ** Translated in English, by Emerson Lamb et published with an introduction by Henry Van Etten for Vantage Press, New York, 1962, ''When the man passed by''. * ''Poèmes'', Paris, Gallimard, 1944 * ''Un Homme perdu'', Paris, Gallimard, 1945 * ''Poèmes à l’inconnue'', Paris, Le Seuil, 1945 * ''À un Jeune Poète'', Paris, Éditions du Pavois, 1945 * ''Kagawa, le Gandhi japonais'', Préf. de Toyohiko Kagawa (en), Paris, Presses d’Île-de-France, 1946

Bibliography

* Georges Hirondel, ''Marius Grout: Prix Goncourt 1943: aventurier de l’absolu'', Luneray, Bertout, () * Georges Hirondel, ''Marius Grout : Ecrivain de l’absolu – Essai d'une "revie" littéraire'', Thèse à la carte A.N.R.T, () {{DEFAULTSORT:Grout, Marius 1903 births 1946 deaths People from Seine-Maritime Writers from Normandy Prix Goncourt winners French male writers 20th-century French male writers