Maurice CarÃªme

Maurice Carême ( born May 12, 1899 in Wavre, † 13 January 1978 Anderlecht) was a Belgian writer.

Carême was born in humble circumstances; his father was a painter, and his mother ran a small shop. He was a very good student and therefore received a scholarship that visiting the École enabled him normal primaire of Tienen. In 1918 he got a job as a teacher in Anderlecht. He founded in 1919 in Brussels, the literary magazine Nos Jeunes, which he renamed in La Revue indépendante 1920. During this time he had his first contacts with contemporary artists such as Edmond Vandercammen and the painter Félix De Boeck.

In 1925 his first volume of poetry appeared 63 illustrations pour un jeu de l' oie. In the years that poems under the influence of Surrealism and Futurism, which in the volumes Hôtel bourgeois (1930 ) Chansons pour Caprine and Reflets d' hélices (1932 ) arose published. Later he turned to a decidedly simple language and wrote two essays on literature for children: Poèmes de gosses (1933 ) and proses d' enfants.

Besides Géo Norge, Pierre Bourgeois, Georges magnification lens, Claire and Yvan Goll, André Salmon, Edmond Vandercammen and René Verboom Carême was in 1931 one of the founders of the Journal of poètes. In 1933, he completed a study of declamation at the Conservatory of Brussels in Madeleine Renaud- Thévenet. In the same year he built at Avenue Nellie Melba in Anderlecht, the Maison blanche. The building since 1975 houses the Fondation Maurice Carême and since 1978 the Musée Maurice Carême.

In 1935 the volume of poetry Mere, considered the main work Carêmes. He was praised by the literary criticism and in 1938 won the Belgian Prix de poésie Triennial and was the inspiration to Darius Milhaud's Cantate de l' enfant et de la mère. 1943 ended Carêmes his work as a teacher and lived since then as a freelance writer. In the same year he joined with Jeannine Burny, which worked until his death when his secretary, then the Fondation Maurice Carême initiated and to which he devoted 1965 La bien- aimée. 1954 was the first of a total of 17 visits Carêmes ' in the Abbey of Orval instead. Here he studied the writings of the great mystics, Indian and Chinese philosophy and Teilhard de Chardin and writings of Rabindranath Tagore. During this period he created works such as the collection of poems Heure de grâce (1957).

He was appointed Prince en poésie of Paris in 1972. In his last years, the fantastic novel Medua arose. In 1975 he founded the Fondation Maurice Carême. At his request, Carême was buried in his birthplace.

Overall Carême published more than eighty books of poems, novels, stories, essays and translations. His works were used as templates for movies and set to music by many composers.

Works

Chansons pour Caprine, poems, 1930
Le royaume des fleurs, novel and short stories, 1934
Mere, poems, 1935
Petite flore, poems, 1935 ( Prix Edgar Allen Poe )
Lancelot, dramatic legend, 1938
La lanterne magique, poems, 1947
Contes pour Caprine, short stories, 1948 ( Prix Victor Rossel )
Le ruban pompadour, short stories, 1948 ( Prix Victor Rossel )
La maison blanche, poems, 1949 ( Prix de l' Académie française )
Petites légendes, poems, 1949
La passagère invisible, travelogue, 1950
La voix du silence, poems, 1951 ( Prix de poésie populiste à Paris)
La bille de verre, novel, 1951
L' eau passe, poèmes, 1952 ( Prix International Syracuse, Prix de l' Académie française )
Images perdues, poems, 1954
Heure de grâce, poems, 1957 ( Prix Félix Denayer, Prix de poésie religieuse à Paris)
L' oiseleur, poems, 1959
La flute au verger, poems, 1960
La grange bleue, poems, 1961
Pomme de reinette, poems, 1962
Bruges, poems, 1963
Un trou dans la tête, novel, 1964
En sourdine, poems, 1964
La bien- aimée, poems, 1965
Brabant, poems, 1967 ( Prix de la Province de Brabant)
Anthologie de la poésie néerlandaise, translations, 1967 ( Prix de la traduction néerlandaise )
Le sablier, poems, 1969
Entre deux mondes, poems, 1970
L' Arlequin, poems, 1970
Mer du Nord, poems, 1971
L' envers du miroir, poems, 1973
Le moulin de papier, poems, 1973
Les étoiles de la poésie de Flandre, translations, 1973
Almanac du ciel, poems, 1973
De feu et de cendré, poems, 1974
Complaintes, poems, 1975
Medua, novel, 1976
Nouveau florilège poétique de Maurice Carême, poems, 1976
Au clair de la lune, poems, 1977
Figures, poems, 1977
Defier le destin, poems, 1987
De plus loin que la nuit, poems, 1992
L' oiseleur et autres poèmes, poems, 2003
Et puis après, poems, 2004
Poèmes choisis, poems, 2004

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