Serge Delaive
Encyclopedia
Serge Delaive is a poet
and novel
ist writing in the French language
. His first novel, Café Europa, made a strong impression on critics. Additionally, his photographs have been featured in exhibitions in Liège (CP-CR), Amay (Maison de la poésie) and Paris
(Librairie Wallonie-Bruxelles).
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Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
and novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
ist writing in the French language
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
. His first novel, Café Europa, made a strong impression on critics. Additionally, his photographs have been featured in exhibitions in Liège (CP-CR), Amay (Maison de la poésie) and Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
(Librairie Wallonie-Bruxelles).
Poetry books
- Légendaire, Editions Les Eperonniers, coll. Feux, Bruxelles, 1995.
- Monde jumeau, Editions Les Eperonniers, coll. Feux, Bruxelles, 1996.
- Par l'oeil blessé, L'Arbre à paroles, Amay, 1997.
- Revolver, Editions de l'Acanthe, Namur/Bruxelles, 1999.
- Le livre canoë, Editions de la Différence, coll. Clepsydre, Paris, 2001.
- En rade, Décharge/Gros textes, coll. Polder n°129, Toucy/Châteauroux-les-Alpes, 2006.
- Les jours followed by Ici là, Editions de la Différence, coll. Clepsydre, Paris, 2006 (Marcel Thiry Prize 2007).
- Poèmes sauvages, Maelström éditions, coll. Bookleg n°30, Bruxelles, 2007.
- Le sexe des boeufs, Tétras Lyre, coll. Accordéon, Soumagne, 2008, with an original drawing by Robert Varlez.
- Une langue étrangère, L'Arbre à paroles, Amay, 2008, with an original drawing by Marilu Nordenflycht.
- Art farouche, Editions de la Différence, coll. Clepsydre, Paris, 2011.
Novels
- Café Europa, Editions de la Différence, Paris, 2004. (Indications Prize 2005).
- L'homme sans mémoire, Editions de la Différence, Paris, 2008.
- Argentine, Editions de la Différence, Paris, 2009. (Rossel Prize 2009)Prix Rossel.
Nonfiction
- Paul Gauguin, étrange attraction, essay, L'Escampette, Chauvigny, 2011.
- Pourquoi je ne serai pas français, Maelström, coll. Bookleg N°79, Bruxelles, 2011.
- Herstal, texts and photographies, Musée de Herstal, Herstal, 2011.
In anthologies and magazines
- La poésie belge, by Alain Bosquet in Nota Bene, n° 41-42-43, printemps 1993, Paris, pp. 291–300.
- Hrvatsko Slovo, newspaper, 19 January 2001, Zagreb, p. 13
- La poésie francophone de Belgique, by Wener Lambersy, Le Cherche Midi éditeur, Paris, 2002, p. 205.
- Poésie1/Vagabondages, n°29, La nouvelle poésie de langue française, Le Cherche Midi éditeur, 2002, Paris, pp. 34–37.
- Knjinzevna Rijeka, n°3, 7th year, chapters of Le temps du rêve translated in Croatian by Ivana Sojat, December 2002, Rijeka, pp. 58–62.
- Encore une journée/Ein Weiterer Tag, bilingual anthology German/French by Rüdiger Fischer, Verlag Im Wald, Rimbach, 2002, pp. 54–67.
- Señas de identidad, bilingual anthology Spanish/French by Sergio Rodriguez, Ediciones Vitruvio, Madrid, 2003, pp. 67–89.
- Ici on parle français & flamand, une fameuse collection de poèmes belges, by Francis Dannemark, Le Castor Astral, coll. Escales du Nord, 2005, Brussels and Bordeaux, p. 71.
- Ceci n’est pas une poésie, een Belgische-Franstalige anthologie, by Benno Barnard, uitgeverij Atlas, Amsterdam, 2005, pp. 539–540.
- Europa Erlesen, Zwischen Fels und Nebel, European anthology by Kevin Perryman et Lojze Wieser, Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt/Celovec, 2006, p. 155.
- Poètes aujourd’hui, un panorama de la poésie francophone de Belgique, anthology by Liliane Wouters and Yves Namur, Taillis Pré/Le Noroît, Namur/Montreal, 2007.
- L'année poétique 2008, Seghers, Paris, 2008.
- Bélgica - Seis poetas belgas jóvenes de lengua francesa, anthology by Laura Calbrese and Alejo Steimberg, Vox Ediciones, Bahía Blanca, Argentina, 2009.
- L'année poétique 2009, Seghers, Paris, 2009.
- El Jabali", Buenos Aires, 2009.
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External links
- http://www.sergedelaive.net
- http://promethee.philo.ulg.ac.be/engdep1/MotAMot/motfstrt.html Site Mot à Mot
- http://www.bon-a-tirer.com/auteurs/delaive.html On the site bon à tirer
- http://www.ladifference.fr/fiches/auteurs/delaive.html On the site of the Editions de la Différence