Charles Vildrac (November 22, 1882 – June 25, 1971), born "Charles Messager ",[1] libertarian playwright, poet and author of what some consider the first modern children's novel, L'Île rose (1924).
Charles Vildrac and his wife in 1926 Born in Paris, Vildrac's first poems were written when he was a teenager in the 1890s. In 1901 he published Le Verlibrisme , a defense of traditional verse. In 1912 he published a collection of prose poems.[1]
He was a member of the Abbaye de Créteil which he founded with Georges Duhamel . He died in Saint-Tropez .
The Prix de poésie Charles Vildrac is named for him.
Poèmes (1905) Images et mirages (1907), poemsLivre d'amour (1910), poemsNotes sur la technique poétique (1910), Notes on Poetic Technique , with Georges Duhamel Chants du désespéré (1914–20) (1920), Songs of a Desperate Man , poemsDécouverte (1912 ), récit Chants du désespéré (1920), poemsLe Paquebot Tenacity (1920; lit. S.S. Tenacity ), theatre playL'Indigent (1920), theatre playMichel Auclair (1921)L'Île rose (1924), children's novel, lit. The Pink Island , translated as Rose Island Poèmes de l'Abbaye (1925), poemsMadame Béliard (1925), theatre playProlongement (1927), poemsD’un voyage au Japon (1927), travel storyLa Brouille (1930), The Misunderstanding , theatre playLa Colonie (1930), children's novel (sequel to L'Île rose )Les Lunettes du lion (1932), children's taleLa famille Moineau (1932), children's taleLe Jardinier de Samos (1932), theatre playMilot (1933), children's taleBridinette (1935), children's talePoucette (1936), theatre playL'œuvre peinte d'Eugène Dabit (1937), monographieRussie neuve (1938), travel storyL'Air du temps (1938), theatre playTrois mois de prison (1942)L'Honneur des poètes (1943]), volume of poems published by the French Resistance ; Vildrac's contribution appears under the pseudonym Robert BaradeLazare (1945), in Chroniques de Minuit , Les Éditions de Minuit , p. 15-39Les Pères ennemis (1946), The Enemy Fathers , theatre playD'après l'écho (1949)Amadou le Bouquillon (1951), children's taleLes Jouets du Père Noël (1952), The Toys of Father Christmas Pages de journal (1968)
1971 Britannica Book of the Year (for events of 1971), "Obituaries 1971" article, page 532, "Vildrac, Charles" item
France, Peter (Ed.) (1995). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-866125-8 . 
