Jean-Jacques Gautier

Jean -Jacques Gautier (* November 4, 1908 in Essômes -sur- Marne, Aisne, † 20 April 1986) was a French writer, theater critic and essayist.

Life

Gautier spent his childhood in Dieppe ( Seine- Maritime) and studied at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Caen. In 1934 he became editor of the Echo de Paris and changed its organization to the newspaper L' Époque. After the beginning of World War II, the Germans arrested him as a prisoner of war. With his release in 1941 he became a nurse and wrote under the pseudonym " Le Boulevardier " for the Figaro to its setting in 1942 theater reviews and columns about Paris. Pierre Brisson hired him in 1944 again as a theater critic for the Figaro. Later Gautier received the post of Secretary General of the Comédie Française, which he gave up in 1946 but due to overloading with his work as a critic.

For his Histoire d'un fait divers Gautier the Prix Goncourt won and was elected to the Académie française in 1972. He was awarded the Croix de guerre 1939-1945 and commander of the Legion of Honour.

Works

  • Histoire d'un fait divers, 1946.
  • Le Puits aux trois vérités, 1949 The fountain to three times the truth. Roman, German translation by Margit Pflagner. Forum Verlag, Vienna 1962.
  • Une femme prisonnière ( German: A captive woman ), 1986
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