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 André Dhôtel
France
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After his childhood in Attigny and a degree of
philosophy from Autun, André Dhôtel had his first contact with literature during his military
service (1920-1923) where he met Georges Limbourg, Roger Vitrac, Marcel Arland, and Robert Desnos .
He created the magazine Aventure with Arland
and Vitrac, then Dés with André Malraux and Pierre Mac Orlan.
After a job as assistant-master in Saint-Omer,
he worked , from 1924 to 1928, as a teacher
in the Superior Institute for French Studies in
Athens.
Back in France, he taught in a few places,
but suffered from depression when editors turned down his writings
In 1943, supported by Jean Paulhan, he published Le Village pathétique through the NRF.
Then prizes began to multiply : the Sainte-Beuve prize for David in 1948, the Fémina prize for
Le Pays où l'on n'arrive jamais in 1955,
the Grand Prix de la Littérature Française in 1974, and the Prix National des Lettres in 1970.
An unclassifiable rambler of the imagination, he drew from his walks around his house in Monts-de-Jeux near Attigny, the inspiration for more than 50 works : novels, poetry, tales, narratives,
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writer, poet
08 Attigny 01/09/1900 75 Paris 22/07/1991
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