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Name
  
Lorand Gaspar


Role
  
Poet

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Books
  
Approche de la parole, La maison près de la mer

Awards
  
Prix Goncourt de la Poesie

Lorand Gaspar (born 1925 in Târgu Mureș, Romania) is a Romanian–born French poet.

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Life

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In 1943, he enrolled at Palatine Joseph University of Technology and Economics (today: Budapest University of Technology and Economics) in Engineering, was mobilized months later, and then imprisoned in a labor camp. He escaped in March 1945, and surrendered to the French in Pfullendorf.

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He moved to France, where he studied medicine, becoming later a surgeon in France, then in Jerusalem, where he lived for sixteen years, and in Bethlehem and Tunis. He lives in Paris, where he is involved in medical research dealing with human psychology.

He published his first verse collection in 1966, Le Quatrième État de la matière (Flammarion).

He has published a number of prose works and travel books as a photographer.

He mastered several languages: to the languages learned as a child, Hungarian, Romanian and German, and later French, English, Latin, Greek and Arabic. He has translated (in collaboration with Sarah Clair), Spinoza, Rilke, Seferis, D. H. Lawrence, Peter Riley, and Pilinsky.

Awards

  • 1998 Prix Goncourt de la Poésie
  • English Translations

  • "from Nuits: An evening in front of the fireplace at Saint Rémy du Val", Jacket 14, translated by Peter Riley, July 2001
  • Mary Ann Caws, ed. (2004). "Lorand Gaspar". Yale anthology of 20th-century French poetry. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10010-5. 
  • Earth Absolute & Other Texts, translated by Mary Ann Caws and Nancy Kline, New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2015.
  • French Language Works

  • Le Quatrième État de la matière Paris: Flammarion, 1966. Prix Apollinaire, 1967
  • Gisements Paris: Flammarion, 1968.
  • Histoire de la Palestine Paris: Maspero, 1968 et 1978.
  • Palestine, année zéro Paris: Maspero, 1970.
  • Sol absolu, Paris, Gallimard, 1972.
  • Sol absolu. Translator Jalāl Ḥakmāwī. Marsam Editions. 2006. ISBN 978-9954-21-066-6. 
  • Approche de la parole, Paris, Gallimard, 1978.
  • Corps corrosifs, Fata Morgana, 1978.
  • Egée suivi de Judée, Paris, Gallimard, 1980.
  • Sol absolu, Corps corrosifs et autres textes, avec un essai d’autobiographie. Paris: Gallimard. 1982. 
  • Feuilles d'observation. Paris : Gallimard, 1986.
  • Carnets de Patmos. Cognac : Le Temps qu'il fait, 1991.
  • Égée, Judée, suivi d’extraits de Feuilles d’observation et de La maison près de la mer. Paris : Gallimard, 1993.
  • Apprentissage. Paris : Deyrolle, 1994.
  • Carnets de Jérusalem, Cognac, Le temps qu'il fait, 1997.
  • Patmos et autres poèmes. Paris : Gallimard, 2001.
  • Derrière le dos de Dieu. Paris : Gallimard, 2010.
  • References

    Lorand Gaspar Wikipedia


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