Célia Bertin is a French writer, biographer, and winner of the 1953 Prix Renaudot

Prix Renaudot

The Prix Théophraste-Renaudot or Prix Renaudot is a French literary award which was created in 1926 by ten art critics awaiting the results of the deliberation of the jury of the Prix Goncourt....

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Celia Bertin is an Officer of the Legion of Honour, and an Officer of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is an Order of France, established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture, and confirmed as part of the Ordre national du Mérite by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963...

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Biography

After her secondary education at the Lycée Fénelon, she obtained a degree in literature at the Sorbonne

Sorbonne

The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...

. She wrote a thesis on the influence of the Russian novel (Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov) on the contemporary English novel (Arnold Bennett to Virginia Woolf).

During World War II

World War II

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, she joined the Resistance

Resistance during World War II

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, and in 1944 she was sent by the Ministry of Information to Switzerland. After the war, she lived in Cagnes-sur-Mer

Cagnes-sur-Mer

Cagnes-sur-Mer is a commune of the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.-Geography:It is the largest suburb of the city of Nice and lies to the west-southwest of it, about from the center.-History:...

, and Saint-Paul-de-Vence. She published her first novel, The Parade of the wicked, in 1946.

In 1951, she participated in the founding of the literary magazine Roman, with Pierre de Lescure, published in St. Paul de Vence. She moved to Paris in 1953, when she won the Prix Renaudot for The Last Innocence.

She translates from English and Italian and published numerous articles (in Le Figaro Literature, Arts, and La Revue de Paris).

Works

• La Parade des Impies, Grasset, 1946
• La Bague était brisée, Corréa, 1947
• Les saisons du mélèze, Corrêa, 1949
• La Dernière Innocence, 1953, Prix Renaudot
• Contre-champ: roman, Plon, 1954
  • The last innocence, McGraw-Hill, 1955
• Une femme heureuse: roman, Corrêa, 1957
• Le temps des femmes, Hachette, 1958
• La Comédienne, Grasset, 1963
• Mayerling, ou le destin fatal des Wittelsbach, Perrin, 1967, ISBN 9782262001087
• Je t'appellerai Amérique, B. Grasset, 1972
• Liens de famille, B. Grasset, 1977, ISBN 9782246004318
• Femmes sous l'Occupation, Stock, 1994
• Jean Renoir, cinéaste, Gallimard, 1994; Gallimard, 2005, ISBN 9782070319985
  • Jean Renoir , Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991, ISBN 9780801841842
• Marie Bonaparte, présentation de Elisabeth Roudinesco, Perrin, 1999
  • Marie Bonaparte: a life, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982, ISBN 9780151572526
• Louis Weiss, Albin Michel, 1999, ISBN 9782226107763
• Femmes sous l'Occupation, les Éd. de la Seine, 2005, ISBN 9782738220295
• Portrait d'une femme romanesque: Jean Voilier, Éditions de Fallois, 2008, ISBN 9782877066365
• La femme à Vienne au temps de Freud, Tallandier, 2009, ISBN 9782847345933

External links

• "Célia Bertin", French wikipedia