Roland Dorgelès (; 15 June 1885 – 18 March 1973) was a French

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and a member of the

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. Born in

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, under the name Roland Lecavelé (he adopted the pen name Dorgelès to commemorate visits to the spa town of Argelès), he spent his childhood in Paris. A prolific author, he is most renowned for the

Prix Femina The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine ''La Vie heureuse'' (today known as '' Femina''). The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury. They reward French-language works written ...

-winning ''Wooden crosses'' (), a moving study of

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, in which he served. It was published in 1919 (in English by William Heinemann in 1920). Dorgelès served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers and musicians.

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Wooden crosses online
1885 births 1973 deaths People from Amiens 20th-century French novelists Prix Femina winners French military personnel of World War I Prix Blumenthal French male novelists 20th-century French male writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers {{France-novelist-19thC-stub

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