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French writer and journalist (1920–2016) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
André Brincourt (8 November 1920, Neuilly-sur-Seine then Seine (department) – 22 March 2016[1] aged 95) was a French writer and journalist.
A former resistant, volunteer at eighteen during the Second World War (prisoner then escaped, he engaged in the Combat movement of the region of Nice,[1]) André Brincourt directed the cultural pages, then the literary supplement of the newspaper Le Figaro. He was also a literary journalist on television and had television interviews with André Malraux, of which he was a friend.[1]
Alongside his work as a journalist, he wrote about twenty books in a wide variety of literary genres, ranging from poetry to novel. In his last years, he seemed to have a preference for the fragment and the aphorism as evidenced by his latest publications.
A member of the prix Renaudot from 1984 to 2011,[2] following his resignation he was awarded the Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française in 1999 for all his work.[1][3]
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