André Pieyre de Mandiargues

André de Pieyre Mandiargues ( born March 14, 1909 in Paris, † December 13, 1991 ) was a French writer.

He is regarded as a companion of André Breton and was influenced by Surrealism and of German Romanticism. In 1967 he received The edge ( La Marge, 1967) of France famous literary prize, the Prix Goncourt for his novel. His book The motorcycle was in 1968 into a film starring Marianne Faithfull and Alain Delon and was considered a scandalous film.

He was since 1950 with the Italian painter and sculptor Bona Tiber setting de Pisis ( 1926-2000 ), the niece of the painter Filippo De Pisis, married and had a daughter with her.

His final resting place he found in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Works (selection)

• Smoldering embers. Narratives. Übers ( Feu de braise. ) Ernst Sander. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt 1964 and passim, last Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1995 from: Rodogune in Frauke Rother, Klaus Moeckel eds. Frz. Narrator from 7 decades. Vol 2, Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1983, pp. 396-411 1985