Armand Lanoux was a French writer.

Biography

He first made several trades, teacher, designer of subjects for boxes of candy, bank employee, amounting in luxury books, painter, journalist.

He became an editor for the literary Artheme Fayard

Fayard

Fayard is a French Paris-based publishing house established in 1857. Fayard is controlled by Hachette Livre.-Works published:Works published by Editions Fayard include:...

 (1950), editor of the magazine À la page (1964), chaired the Committee on French television in 1958-1959, and was appointed Secretary General of Radio and Television International University. He was a member of the France-USSR Association. He participated in drafting the Code des Usages.

He wrote in many genres: the novel, non-fiction, chronicles, drama, poetry (Apollinaire 1953 Chapman prize).

From 1957 to 1964, he spent several months a year in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat

Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat

Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat , Italian: San Giovanni Capo Ferrato, is a commune of the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France.It is located on a peninsula next to Beaulieu-sur-Mer and to Villefranche-sur-Mer and extends out to Cap Ferrat...

. In 1963, he earned accolades in winning the Prix Goncourt

Prix Goncourt

The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"...

 for his novel "When the tide goes out."

In 1970, he co-wrote with Marcel Cravenne Lys dans la vallée, directed by Marcel Cravenne, based on the novel by Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon....

. In 1980, he adapted the novel by Balzac La Peau de chagrin for television, directed by Michel Favart.

He died in Champs-sur-Marne

Champs-sur-Marne

Champs-sur-Marne is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located in the Seine-et-Marne Departments of France in the Île-de-France region from the center of Paris....

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Awards

• Prix du roman populiste, for La Nef des fous
• Grand Prix du roman of Société des Gens de Lettres
  Société des gens de lettres
  The Sociéte des gens de lettres de France is a writers' association founded in 1838 by the notable French authors Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, and George Sand...
  
  , Les Lézards dans l'horloge
• Prix Interallié, Le Commandant Watrin
• Prix Goncourt
  Prix Goncourt
  The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"...
  
  , Quand la mer se retire

Works

• La Canadienne assassinée (Colbert) 1943 :
• Le Pont de la folie (Colbert) 1946
• L'Affaire de l'impasse Ronsin 1947
• La Nef des fous (Amiot-Dumont/Julliard) 1948,
• L'Enfant en proie aux images (Labeyrie) 1949
• La Classe du matin (Fayard) 1949
• Cet âge trop tendre (Julliard) 1951
• Colporteur (Seghers), 1953 Prix Apollinaire
• Les Lézards dans l'horloge (Julliard), 1953
• Bonjour, Monsieur Zola (Amiot-Dumont/Hachette) 1954
• Le Photographe délirant (Seghers) 1956
• Le Commandant Watrin (Julliard), 1956
• Yododo (Fayard) 1957
• Le Rendez-vous de Bruges (Julliard) 1958
• Un jeune homme en habit 1958
• La Tulipe orageuse (Seghers) 1959
• La Tête tranchée : à quoi jouent les enfants du bourreau (Julliard) 1959
• 1900, la bourgeoisie absolue (Hachette) 1961
• Quand la mer se retire (Julliard), 1963
• Le Berger des abeilles (Grasset) 1974
• La Corsetière prodigieuse (Jean-Pierre Kupczyk éditor) 1988