Marguerite (195?–197?) Nicole (1979–2017, his death)
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2 sons
Roger Grenier (French pronunciation:[ʁɔʒeɡʁənje]; 19 September 1919[1] – 8 November 2017) was a French writer, journalist and radio animator. He was Regent of theCollège de ’Pataphysique.[2]
As a youth, Grenier lived inPau, where Andrélie[3] opened a shop selling glasses.During the Second World War, he attended classes taught byGaston Bachelard at theSorbonne while participating in theFrench Resistance before actively participating in the 1944liberation of Paris. In his memoirParis ma grand'ville, Grenier describes being briefly arrested and narrowly avoiding execution by the Occupation forces on the boulevard Saint-Germain. He was only able to escape after an argument in German broke out among his captors. After the Liberation of Paris, he joinedAlbert Camus at the newspaperCombat.[4] Grenier later went on to write for the newspaperFrance Soir. As a journalist, he followed post-war trials which inspired his first essay in 1949Le Rôle d'accusé. He left professional journalism in 1964 to assume a position on the editorial board of the prominent French publishing houseGallimard.A true man of letters, Grenier was actively involved in many aspects of literary production and criticism. In addition to working as a radio host and a writer for television and cinema, he was a member of the board at Gallimard from 1964 up until his death. Young authors frequently sought out his advice and submitted manuscripts to him for consideration. Grenier was well connected among French authors of his time, such as Joseph Kessel and Albert Camus (whose works Grenier edited after Camus died in 1960), and writers abroad, such as William Faulkner and Yukio Mishimo. His own writing has been recognized by some of the most prominent literary institutions in France. He was a recipient of theGrand prix de l'Académie française in 1985 for his body of work of more than thirty works: novels including the best-sellersLe Palais d'hiver 1965 andCiné-romanPrix Femina in 1972, as well as essays on Chekov and F. Scott Fitzgerald and memoirs.He is best known in the United States for his workThe Difficulty of Being a Dog (Les larmes d'Ulysse), translated by Alice Kaplan. Until his death, he was writing and a busy conference attendee, speaking about his works, literature, Gallimard, or his friends:Albert Camus, andBrassaï.
2003Trois tortues et quelques autres, Gibraffaro ???
2003Une nouvelle pour vous, novels
2001Fidèle au poste
2001Roger Grenier ou le droit de se contredire, conversation with Danielle Stéphane, La Passe du vent
2000Le Veilleur, novel
1998Les Larmes d'Ulysse, translation(in English) by Alice Kaplan,The Difficulty of Being a Dog, University of Chicago Press, 2000,ISBN9780226308289. Seean excerpt.
1988Rues, 1934–1988, photographs by J. Dubois, Nathan
1988La Mare d'Auteuil, novel
1987Albert Camus, soleil et ombre : une biographie intellectuelle, essay,Prix Albert Camus, Rééd. 1991,(in Italian)Albert Camus, a cura di Roger Grenier, Milano,Bompiani, 1988. Réed. 1992
