Bernard Clavel

Bernard Charles Henri Clavel (* May 29, 1923 in Lons -le- Saunier, † October 5, 2010 in Grenoble ) was a French writer.

Life

The father of Clavel was a baker, mother florist. In the family emphasis was placed on the shortest possible time school. At 14, Bernard Clavel joined the apprenticeship with a confectioner who abused him. He earned his living first with a variety of odd jobs, including as a lumberjack and as a show fighters at the fair.

Self-taught, he made in those years in painting and writing from. In the early 1950s published in the daily newspaper Le Progres de Lyon his first article. This was followed by orders to editors of radio drama texts for the radio. In 1956 he published, sponsored by Hervé Bazin and Marcel Aymé, his first novel, L' Ouvrier de la nuit. The book, in his own words "thrown in a few feverish days and nights to paper " after, marked the beginning of a life's work, consisting of a long series of novels, stories, essays, and biographies. More than 20 of his novels were published translated into several languages ​​outside France. His stories were mostly action-packed, told with powerful heroes and in a way that hineinzog the reader into the story and brought him to take sides. He lifted the Roman du terroir, the novel with local color, from a despised genre to literary level.

In 1968 he was awarded for Les fruits d' hiver the Prix Goncourt. This award triggered a crisis in the prize committee, because Louis Aragon would have preferred as the winner François Nourrissier. Aragon subsequently went out of the committee. 1971 Clavel was appointed even in the committee. He took his hand in 1978 by this mandate back because their own work left him no time to read the works of the laureates.

A number of his works adapted for film and television, including L' Espagnol under the direction of Jean Prat. The hero, Pablo, embodies a comrade from the Resistance, whom he had met in 1942.

Clavel rejected twice from the Legion of Honor.

Publications (selection)

  • L' Ouvrier de la nuit. Julliard, 1956 ( first novel )
  • Les Pirates du Rhône. Julliard, 1957 ( filmed 1975)
  • Mala Tavern. Robert Laffont, 1960. German translation: Mala Tavern, Aufbau-Verlag Berlin, 1967
  • German translation: The Singing Tree. Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1979.

Awards

  • Prix ​​Goncourt for Les Fruits de l' hiver 1968
  • Member of the Académie Goncourt 1971-1977
  • Member of the Coordination française pour la Décennie de la culture de paix et de non -violence
  • Member of the Non- Violence XXI Group since 2001
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