Maurice Polard (19 September 1932,

Guipavas Guipavas (; ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. The writer Maurice Polard (born 1932) is from Guipavas. The city is divided into two major parts: the west, known as the dynamic core of the city and ...

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then Brest and

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where he obtained the agrégation of English. He made his career as a teacher at

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and Brest. His first novel, ''La Saison du maître'', very much noticed at the time, recalled the war school in Britain in the mid-1980s.

Bibliography

*1985: ''La Saison du maître'', Gallimard
Prix Julien Dubreuil
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 ...

1985 and Prix Français de La Table Ronde 1986 *1988: ''Le Naufrageur'', Gallimard, Grand Prix des Ecrivains de l'Ouest 1988 and Prix Bretagne 1988 *1990: ''Le Château du vent'',

Éditions Gallimard Éditions Gallimard (), formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961), is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003, it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles. Founded by G ...

*1996: ''Le Préau des rois'', Picollec *1999
''Confession d'un matin de Pâques''
on Gallica,

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*2006: ''Molto tristamente'', artist's book with an unpublished text by Maurice Polard and 5 engravings by Anick Butré, Editions du Capricorne Maurice Polard also wrote the preface to the book by Jean-Louis Potier
''FINISTERE SAUVAGE''Rue des Scribes Editions
, a book of photographs in black and white on the landscapes of Finistère.

External links

* ttp://www.academie-francaise.fr/maurice-polard Maurice Polardon the site of the Académie française {{DEFAULTSORT:Polard, Maurice Polard People from Finistère 1932 births Living people 20th-century French non-fiction writers Writers from Brittany