• 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (UK: /ˌsæ̃tɪɡˈzuːpɛri/, US: /-ɡzuːpeɪˈriː/, French:...
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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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    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    unpublished manuscripts, Parisian editor Bernard de Fallois acquired Dicker's debut novel Les derniers jours de nos pères (The Final Days of Our Fathers).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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Count 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Pascal Quignard (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    Carus 1991: Prix de la langue française 1998: Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL, for Vie secrète 1998: Grand prix du roman de la Ville de Paris 2000: Grand...
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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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    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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    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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    André Maurois, The Psychology of Art by André Malraux and Wagner by Guy de Pourtalès. She also translated Norwegian (Trygve Gulbranssen, Sigrid Boo), Danish...
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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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