Maurice Genevoix, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Maurice Genevoix

French writer

Date of Birth: 29-Nov-1890

Place of Birth: Decize, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 08-Sep-1980

Profession: writer, poet, biographer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Maurice Genevoix

  • Maurice Genevoix (French pronunciation: ?[m??is ??nvwa, mo?-]; 29 November 1890 – 8 September 1980) was a French author. Born on 29 November 1890 at Decize, Nièvre as Maurice-Charles-Louis-Genevoix, Genevoix spent his childhood in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire.
  • After attending the local school, he studied at the lycĂ©e of OrlĂ©ans and the LycĂ©e Lakanal.
  • Genevoix was accepted to the Ecole Normale SupĂ©rieure, being first in his class, but was soon mobilized into World War I in 1914.
  • He was quickly promoted to a lieutenant.
  • He participated in the bloody battles of the Les Éparges hill aswell as along the road of TranchĂ©e de Calonne to the south east of Verdun-sur-Meuse in late 1914 and early 1915.
  • On the 25 April 1915 he was severely wounded in action in his left arm and side in the TranchĂ©e de Calonne sector and returned to Paris.
  • The battle in the Meuse in which he participated, especially those at Les Éparges left a profound influence on him, and he wrote the tetralogy Ceux de 14 (The Men of 1914), which brought him recognition among the public. Around 1919, Genevoix contracted Spanish influenza, causing him to move back to the Loire.
  • He was quite prolific during his time in the Loire area, earning a Prix Blumenthal grant from the Florence Blumenthal Foundation to support him as a professional writer.
  • It was this grant that allowed him to continue with some of his most celebrated works, RĂ©mi des Rauches and Raboliot, the latter of which earned him the Prix Goncourt. In 1928, his father died, and Genevoix moved to Vernelles in Loiret.
  • At around this time, Genevoix started to travel abroad to Canada, Scandinavia, Mexico, and Africa.
  • Canada and Africa were both admired by the writer, the latter of which he dedicated a 1949 essay to it, Afrique blanche, Afrique noire.
  • He was elected to the AcadĂ©mie française on 24 October 1946 and was formally inducted the following year.
  • In 1950, he returned to Paris and became secretary of the AcadĂ©mie française in 1958.
  • In 1970, Genevoix, who was president of the program committee of French state radio, started a television series on French writers.
  • He was also offered the Grand Prix National de Letters.
  • He died on 8 September 1980. The AcadĂ©mie française literary Prix Maurice Genevoix is named for him.

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