Pierre Gamarra

Pierre Gamarra (* July 10, 1919 in Toulouse, † 20 May, 2009 Argenteuil ) was a French writer.

Biography

Pierre Gamarra comes from the Spanish Basque country and from the Languedoc. He was the first school teacher, then a journalist and especially storyteller, poet and literary critic. He has also written essays and plays. His youth work dedicated ( short stories, plays or poems ) is often taught in French schools.

He was in Lausanne awarded in 1948 with the International Charles Veillon Prize for his novel La Maison de feu.

In 1951, Pierre Gamarra responsibility for the editorial board of the literary magazine Europe under the leadership of Pierre Abraham, whom he succeeded in 1974 at the direction of the magazine.

Whether it is recognized as one of the most interesting French writer for the youth of prose or poetry, Pierre Gamarra. His fables and his poems ( including the famous poem Mon cartable ) are well known to the students. His work includes novels for young people. Throughout his novelistic work of Pierre Gamarra masters the way colors and atmospheres represent, and also to generate voltage as. L' assassin in a le prix Goncourt or Capitaine Printemps 1955 one of his most famous novels Le Maître d' école is published, in which he describes the life of Simon Sermet, a resident of the South of France lay school teacher. He also has a novelistic trilogy about Toulouse wrote: The Secrets of Toulouse ( 1969), Gold and Blood (1973) and The Luck of the seventy-two days (1977).

1985 him the Grand Prix de la Société des Gens de Lettres for Le Fleuve palimpsests is awarded.

He was often described as an Occitan writers in French. His work is extensive. Over more than 50 years, he has written a literary Rundschau he founded the Revue within Europe. In this chronicle he introduced French and foreign publications, where he remained the unsprünglichen sense of the Revue true, the discovery and dissemination of literature of the " small countries ".

Works translated into German

  • The little girl and the Dove: A beautiful story, 1951
  • Children of black bread, Berlin Verl people & World, 1952 (Translation: Kate Arendt)
  • Rosalie Brousse, 1955
  • Beauty through the eyes of loneliness, short stories, 1957, Verlag Berlin Tribune (Translation: Paul Schlicht )
  • The Lilac of St. Lazare 1952 VVN Verlag ( Berlin) ( Translation: Rudolf Pabel )
  • The schoolmaster, Berlin Verl Tribune, 1961
  • The unknown stories, 1963
  • The Feathered Serpent: A Mexican- Pyrenean Adventure, 1963, Engebelrt Verlag ( Gesamtausstatung: Heiner Rothfuchs )
  • The Unknown: stories, publishing folk and world, Berlin, 1963
  • The murderer was awarded the Prix Goncourt, detective novel, publishing folk and world, 1965 ( Translation: Michael O. Güsten )
  • Capitaine Spring, 1967
  • The mysteries of Toulouse, Verlag Neues Leben Berlin, 1969 ( translation: Tilly Bergner )
  • King flute and consorts: A play for children, 1971
  • Gold and blood, Verlag Neues Leben Berlin, 1973 ( translation: Tilly Bergner )
  • The luck of the seventy-two days, Verlag Neues Leben Berlin, 1977
  • The Regenbogentee: a fairy tale, 1977
  • For $ 50,000 chewing gum, 1980
  • Mandarin and tangerine, Berlin children's book publishing company, 1982

Collective works

  • The Small Wind bride Edeltraut, editing by James Kruss, Thienemann Verlag, Stuttgart, 1971.
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