Roland Dorgelès

Roland Dorgelès (Amiens, June 15th 1885 - Paris, March 18th 1973), is a French journalist and writer. Member of the Academy Goncourt of 1929 with 1973.

Biography

After a sad childhood, poor and difficult in Parisian suburbs, Roland Lecavelé, known as Roland Dorgelès, joined Paris with his/her parents. He studies decorative arts, then launches out in journalism, while collaborating with various newspapers, of which Messidor , Paris-newspaper , etc

Roland Dorgelès attends the Montmartrean circles where it meets Pierre Mac Orlan. He is familiar of the Nimble Lapin and announces by his articles in the Smile or Fantasio , but also by his Canular S well in the tone and the spirit of Montmartre of the beginning of the century. Its hoax the most famous remainder that whose the Nimble Rabbit was the theater. Dorgelès hung a brush with the tail of an ass, so that it smears various colors a fabric which was entitled Sunset on the Adriatic and was signed Boronali which is only the Anagramme of Aliboron… The table, before Dorgelès does not reveal true nature of it, had been exposed to the Salon of independent the of 1910.

In 1914, although reformed, it engages. It will fight initially in a regiment of infantry, will be named corporal (and decorated with the Military Cross). This experiment will be the source of the novel which will return it celebrates, the Crosses of wood , published in 1919, which will obtain the Prix Fémina the same year.

In 1917, Dorgelès entered to the Canard connected, where it bound friendship with Henri Béraud and Paul Valiant-Dressmaker. It published in this newspaper a satirical novel entitled the machine to finish the war . He will write articles in the same vein and the same newspaper between 1917 and 1920.

For some of its articles it used the pseudonym of Roland Catenoy, but most important (polemical serials, tales, articles) appeared under its name. The war profiteers, the deputies, the police force were particularly aimed, as those which tried diaboliser the Bolchevique S.

He wrote a play, ( the cord with the neck ).

In 1923, it Marie with Hania Routchine, an opera singer of Russian ascent. A stay in Indo-China inspires to him On the road tangerine . In 1929, it succeeds Georges Courteline with the Académie Goncourt.

In 1939, it becomes correspondent war for Gringoire . Taken refuge in Cassis in 1940, then, as from November 1942, in Comminges, with Montsaunès, which will be used as framework with its novel Indentity card , 1945). It had ceased any collaboration with Gringoire in 1941.

In 1954, he is elected president of the Goncourt Academy, function which he will occupy until his death in 1973.

Price Roland Dorgelès

Roland Dorgelès was lontemps president of the association of the writers combatants. Each year since 1996 this association, in collaboration with the ministry for the Culture and the communication, decrees the " Price Roland Dorgelès " with two professionals of the audio-visual (radio and television) distinguished for their attachment with quality from the French language. The jury is currently chaired by Michel Tauriac. Among the prizes winner: Jean-Pierre Elkabbach and Yves Calvi (2006); Jacques Pradel and Georges Pernoud (2005); Jacques Chancel and Michel Drucker (2004); Frederic Mitterrand and Patrick de Carolis (2003); Jean-Marc Sylvestre and Nicolas Hulot (2002).

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