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Roland Dorgelès

Roland Dorgelès

French writer


Dead at 87 years
Birthday
Monday
He is born 138 years, 9 months and 13 days ago
Death date
Sunday

He is dead since 51 years and 10 days
Birthplace
Amiens, France
Nationality: french France
Categories
Writers
Journalists
Birth sign: Gemini

Roland Dorgelès (French pronunciation: [dɔʁʒəlɛs]; 15 June 1885 – 18 March 1973) was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Goncourt.

Born in Amiens, Somme, under the name Roland Lecavelé (he adopted the pen name Dorgelès to commemorate visits to the spa town of Argelès), he spent his childhood in Paris.

A prolific author, he is most renowned for the Prix Femina-winning Wooden crosses (Les croix de bois), a moving study of World War I, in which he served. It was published in 1919 (in English by William Heinemann in 1920).

Dorgelès served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers and musicians.

Source : Wikipedia