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Armand Lanoux (24 October 1913 – 23 March 1983) was a French writer.




Biography


Lanoux was born in Paris, France. Early in life he had several jobs: he was a teacher, designer of candy boxes, bank employee, painter and journalist.
He became an editor for the literary Artheme Fayard (1950), editor of the magazine À la page (1964), chaired the Committee on French television in 1958–1959, and was appointed Secretary General of the Radio and Television International University. He was a member of a 13-member panel that chose "Dors, mon amour" as the French Eurovision entry in 1958, where it finished first out of 10. He was a member of the France-USSR Association. He participated in drafting the Code des Usages.
Lanoux wrote in many genres: the novel, non-fiction, chronicles, drama, poetry (Apollinaire 1953 Chapman prize).
From 1957 to 1964, he spent several months a year in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. In 1963, he earned accolades in winning the Prix Goncourt for his novel Quand la mer se retire (When the tide goes out).
In 1970, he co-wrote with Marcel Cravenne Le Lys dans la vallée, directed by Marcel Cravenne, based on the novel of the same name by Honoré de Balzac. In 1980, Lanoux adapted Balzac's novel La Peau de chagrin for television, directed by Michel Favart.
Lanoux died in Champs-sur-Marne, aged 69.
The fonds of Armand Lanoux are stored at the Archives nationales à Montréal of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ).




Awards


Prix du roman populiste, for La Nef des fous
Grand Prix du roman of Société des Gens de Lettres, Les Lézards dans l'horloge
Prix Interallié, Le Commandant Watrin
Prix Goncourt, Quand la mer se retire




Works


La Canadienne assassinée (Colbert) 1943
Le Pont de la folie (Colbert) 1946
L'Affaire de l'impasse Ronsin 1947
La Nef des fous (Amiot-Dumont/Julliard) 1948
L'Enfant en proie aux images (Labeyrie) 1949
La Classe du matin (Fayard) 1949
Cet âge trop tendre (Éditions Julliard) 1951
Colporteur (Seghers), 1953 Prix Apollinaire
Les Lézards dans l'horloge (Julliard), 1953
Bonjour, Monsieur Zola (Amiot-Dumont/Hachette) 1954
Le Photographe délirant (Seghers) 1956
Le Commandant Watrin (Julliard), 1956
Yododo (Fayard) 1957
Le Rendez-vous de Bruges (Julliard) 1958
Un jeune homme en habit 1958
La Tulipe orageuse (Seghers) 1959
La Tête tranchée : à quoi jouent les enfants du bourreau (Julliard) 1959
1900, la bourgeoisie absolue (Hachette) 1961
Quand la mer se retire (Julliard) 1963
Le Berger des abeilles (Grasset) 1974
La Corsetière prodigieuse (Jean-Pierre Kupczyk éditor) 1988




References

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• Marguerite Steinheil
• Prix Goncourt
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• Marguerite Steinheil
• Félix Faure
• Simone de Beauvoir
• Marcel Proust
• Jean-Baptiste Andrea
• Michel Houellebecq
• Romain Gary
• Marguerite Duras
• List of French-language authors