Name Claude Seignolle | Role Author | |
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Books La malvenue, Marie la louve, La Nuit des Halles | ||
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Claude Seignolle (born in Périgueux in June 25, 1917) is a French author. His main interests were folklore and archaeology before he turned to fiction. He has also written under the pseudonyms 'Starcante', 'S. Claude' and 'Jean-Robert Dumoulin'.
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- Le meneur de loups claude seignolle livre audio
- Une exposition ddie lcrivain Claude Seignolle
- Early and later life
- Awards
- References
Une exposition dédiée à l'écrivain Claude Seignolle
Early and later life
At the age of twelve his family moved to Chatenay-Malabry and he went to school in Lakanal at Sceaux where his history teacher encouraged his interests in archaeology. He was expelled from this school for absenteeism.
He later joined the French Prehistoric Society, where he met the renowned folklorist Arnold Van Gennep. With his brother Jacques, Claude toured Hurepoix for two years collecting folklore and legends, and in 1937 he co-wrote with his brother The Folklore of Hurepoix, which was praised by Pierre Mac Orlan and Blaise Cendrars. In 1945 he published his first novel Le Rond des sorciers.
He lives in the liberation St. Montaine, still in Sologne, where he collects local folklore and stories that inspired several of his books. Seignolle wrote several books of supernatural horror, including The Accursed. He is considered by some to be one of the best French fantasists; Lawrence Durrell has written of Seignolle: "The devils, the werewolves and the vampires...appear in his novels as disturbing realities, and the attitude he adopts towards them is so matter-of-fact that the reader rapidly finds himself believing in them...." Horror historian R.S. Hadji included Seignolle on his list of the greatest horror writers.
He turned 100 in June 2017.
Awards
In November 2008 he received the Prix Alfred Verdaguer from the French Academy.
A literary prize bearing his name recognizes the works relating to French folklore. It is awarded annually since 2004, in Épinal, at the Festival Imaginales.