- Source: Henriette Charasson
- Henriette Charasson
- 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature
- 1940 Nobel Prize in Literature
- 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature
- 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature
- 1943 Nobel Prize in Literature
- 1944 Nobel Prize in Literature
- 1941 Nobel Prize in Literature
- 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature
- List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature
Henriette Charasson (6 January 1884 – 24 December 1972) was a French author of Catholic themes who was nominated multiple times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Biography
Charasson was born on 6 January 1884 in Le Havre, France.
During World War I, Charasson joined the Action Française. She wrote for La Croix and L'Action Française on several occasions under the pseudonym Orion, which increased her notoriety in intellectual and masculine nationalist circles. She later became a contributor for La Dépêche tunisienne as a literary critic for twenty-five years.
Upon reading the works of Charles Maurras, Charasson expressed that her belief in God was awakened. She said: "For me, I repeat, encountering the works of Charles Maurras, who is not a believer, was my first step on the road to Damascus." Her marriage in 1920 to the journalist René Johannet led to her eventual conversion to Catholicism. After the condemnation of Action Française by the Pope Pius XI in 1926, Charasson turned away from the movement.
She died on 24 December 1972 on Châteauroux, France.
Publications
Awards
Charasson's honors are from the Académie Française:
Prix Montyon in 1921
Prix Fabien in 1925
Prix d'Académie in 1929, 1935 and 1942
Prix Paul-Hervieu in 1933
Prix d'Aumale in 1939
Prix Alice-Louis Barthou in 1947
Prix Véga et Lods de Wegmann in 1955 and 1960
Prix Broquette-Gonin in 1963
Prix Valentine de Wolmar in 1969
References
External links
Jean Rousselot. Dictionary of contemporary French poetry 1968, Auge, Guillon, Hollier-Larousse, Mooreau et Cie.-Librairie Larousse, Paris