Guy de Pourtalès (4 August 1881 Berlin – 12 June 1941 Lausanne) was a Swiss author. He was the son of Herman Alexander de Pourtalès (1847–1904) and his...
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his first marriage, de Pourtalès became the stepmother of Count Guy de Pourtalès (1881–1941), the author, and Count Raimond Pourtalès (1882–1914), attache...
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Louis de Pourtalès (a brother of James-Alexandre de Pourtalès and Frédéric de Pourtalès, grandfather of Friedrich von Pourtalès) and Sophie de Guy d'Audanger...
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George Edmond de Pourtalès, 1870–1935), Swiss infantry captain and sailor who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics Friedrich von Pourtalès (1853–1928),...
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Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry (29 June 1900 – c. 31 July 1944), known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (UK: /ˌsæ̃tɪɡˈzuːpəri/...
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Mary Lorillard Barbey (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
18 February 2018. "GUY DE POURTALÈS – Sa vie". Fondation Guy de Pourtalès (in French). Retrieved 16 July 2021. "Hélène de Pourtalès Bio, Stats, and Results"...
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2020. Guy de Pourtalès, Nous, à qui rien n'appartient, Flammarion, 1990 Guy de Pourtalès, La Pêche miraculeuse, Infolio, 2014 Guy de Pourtalès, Correspondances...
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Joël Dicker (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
unpublished manuscripts, Parisian editor Bernard de Fallois acquired Dicker's debut novel Les derniers jours de nos pères (The Final Days of Our Fathers). The...
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Anne Wiazemsky (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
returned to Paris in 1962. She graduated from the high school Ecole Sainte Marie de Passy in Paris. Wiazemsky made her on-screen acting debut at the age of 18...
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Giuliano da Empoli (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
debut novel Le Mage du Kremlin, for which he received the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française. Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1973, Giuliano da Empoli...
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Amélie Nothomb (category Members of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique)
about corporate life in Japan Fear and Trembling won the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1999, and in 2015 she was elected to the Royal Academy...
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François Mauriac (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
Jesus 1964 - De Gaulle de François Mauriac (French edition), 1966 English -(Doubleday) 1919 – Petits Essais de Psychologie Religieuse: De quelques coeurs...
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Jean Raspail (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
the prestigious French literary awards Grand Prix du Roman and Grand Prix de littérature by the Académie française. The French government honoured him...
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List of American heiresses (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
York Times. 4 March 1891. Retrieved 22 June 2021. "GUY DE POURTALÈS – Sa vie". Fondation Guy de Pourtalès (in French). Retrieved 16 July 2021. Willsey, Joseph...
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2011. Archived from the original on 2 November 2011. "Le Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française à Eric Faye". Le Parisien (in French). 28 October 2010...
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André Malraux (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
meeting figures such as Demetrios Galanis, Max Jacob, François Mauriac, Guy de Pourtalès, André Salmon, Jean Cocteau, Raymond Radiguet, Florent Fels, Pascal...
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Laurent Binet (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
conquest of Europe by Atahualpa. The novel was awarded the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 2019 and was published in English by Farrar, Straus...
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and Zürich. Visitors included Romain Rolland, Maurice Maeterlinck, Guy de Pourtalès, Pablo Casals and Carl Schuricht. The family often visited Jeanne's...
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Albert Cohen (novelist) (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
he was a child. Albert Cohen discusses this period in his novel Le Livre de ma mère (The Book of My Mother). He studied at a private Catholic school....
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Necker, née Suzanne Curchod (1739–1794) Juste Olivier (1807–1876) Guy de Pourtalès (1881–1941) Pericle Pattochi (11.03.1911 Lugano - 13.04. 1968 à Loèche-les-Bains)...
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Joseph Kessel (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
11 mai (1924) Mary de Cork (1925) Les captifs (1926; Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française) Nuits de princes (1927) Belle de Jour (1928; it inspired...
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Georges Bernanos (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
World War II. His two best-known novels Sous le soleil de Satan (1926) and the Journal d'un curé de campagne (1936) both revolve around a parish priest who...
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Comte Jean Bruno Wladimir François-de-Paule Lefèvre d'Ormesson (16 June 1925 – 5 December 2017) was a French writer and novelist. He authored forty books...
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Patrick Modiano (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
the Institut de France for lifetime achievement, the 1978 Prix Goncourt for Rue des boutiques obscures, and the 1972 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française...
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Jonathan Littell (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
Bienveillantes), won two major French awards, including the Prix Goncourt and the Prix de l'Académie française. Littell grew up in France and the United States and...
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Boualem Sansal (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Alger. Lettre de colère et d'espoir à mes compatriotes in 2006, Sansal's books have been banned in Algeria. Sansal's 2008 novel Le village de l'Allemand...
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Sorj Chalandon (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
collaboration, six years after his father's death. His memoir on this subject, Enfant de salaud, was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt in 2021. At the age of 21, he...
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Alphonse Van Bredenbeck de Châteaubriant (French pronunciation: [alfɔ̃s də ʃɑtobʁijɑ̃]; 25 March 1877 – 2 May 1951) was a French writer who won the Prix...
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Pierre Michon (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
Elizabeth Deshays for Archipelago Books, 2008. 1988: Life of Joseph Roulin (Vie de Joseph Roulin). Translated by Wyatt Mason for Mercury House and included in...
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Michel Tournier (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
2016) was a French writer. He won awards such as the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1967 for Friday, or, The Other Island and the Prix...
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