Dominique Rolin

Dominique Rolin (22 May 1913 – 15 May 2012) was a Belgian novelist.

Her career was launched by Jean Cocteau and Jean Paulhan during the Second World War. Over some sixty years she developed a unique, feminist voice in French novel-writing, blending seamlessly autobiography and fiction, and centered on two men, her first husband, a sculptor, and avant-garde writer and theorist Philippe Sollers with whom, in spite of an age gap, she had a half-century secret relationship. She was a Femina Prize winner and a member of the Belgian Royal Academy.

Works

• Repas de famille (1932), novella
• Les Pieds d’argile (1935), novel
• La Peur (1936), novella
• Marais (1942),
• Anne la bien-aimée (1944),
• Le Souffle (1952),
• Les Quatre coins (1954)
• Artémis (1958)
• Le Lit (1960)
• Maintenant (1967)
• Le Corps (1969)
• Les Éclairs (1971)
• Lettre au vieil homme (1973)
• L’Enragé (1978)
• L’Infini chez soi (1980)
• L’Enfant-roi (1986)
• Trente ans d’amour fou (1988)
• Vingt chambres d’hôtel (1990)
• L’Accoudoir (1996)
• La Rénovation (1998)
• Journal amoureux (2000), novel
• Le Futur immédiat (2001), novel
• Plaisirs (2001),
• Lettre à Lise (2003)

Awards

• Prix Femina, (1952), for Le Souffle.
• Franz Hellensprijs, (1978), for L'Enragé.
• Kléber Haedensprijs, (1980), for L’Infini chez soi.
• Prix Roland Jouvenel of the Académie française, (1990), for Vingt chambres d’hôtel.
• Thyde Monnier-prijs , (1991), entire oeuvre.
• Grand Prix National des Lettres, (2001), entire oeuvre.