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Jeanne Champion

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Jeanne Champion (born 25 June 1931, near Lons-le-Saunier) is a French painter and historical novelist.

Biography

Jeanne Champion, born in a peasant environment, is largely self-taught.[1] An artist-painter since 1956, Jeanne Champion has produced an abundant production in her two fields of activity. In painting, often unsatisfied, she destroyed many of her creations but she left some 200 paintings and a good number of engravings.

Honours

A writer since 1961, Jeanne Champion was awarded the Prix Goncourt de la biographie in 1984 for her fictionalized biography of Suzanne Valadon, translated into several languages.

She was also bestowed the Grand Prix du roman de la Société des gens de lettres (1980) for her novel Les frères Montaurian, the Prix de l'Événement du jeudi (1986) for le Bunker and the Prix des écrivains croyants [fr] (1990) for her documentary book Mémoires en exil.

In 1982, she was awarded the Prix Alice-Louis Bartoux of the Académie française.

She was elevated to the rank of officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2001.

Works

Literature

  • 1967: Le Cri, novel, Éditions Julliard.
  • 1968: Les Miroirs jumeaux, novel, Julliard.
  • 1969: X., novel, Bourgois.
  • 1969: Les Enfants des Roumis, éd. d'Halluin et Cie
  • 1973: Vautour-en-Privilège, novel, ed. Calmann-Lévy
  • 1974: Ma Fille Marie-Hélène Charles Quint, ed. Calmann-Lévy
  • 1975: Dans les jardins d'Esther, novel, ed. Calmann-Lévy
  • 1977: Les Gisants ed. Calmann-Lévy
  • 1979: Les frères Montaurian, novel, Éditions Grasset
  • 1981: La Passion selon Martial Montaurian, novel, éd. Grasset
  • 1982: L'Amour capital, novel, Calmann-Lévy
  • 1984: Suzanne Valadon, fictionalized biography, Presses de la Renaissance [fr]
  • 1985: Le Bunker, Calmann-Lévy
  • 1986: Bette Davis, Lherminier.
  • 1987: La Hurlevent, fictionalized biography, Presses de la Renaissance.
  • 1989: Memoires en exil, documentary, Fayard.
  • 1996: La Maison Germanicus, Grasset.
  • 1999: L'Amour à perpétuité, novel, Grasset.
  • 2001: Lambeaux de mémoire : Enfance, éd. Plon
  • 2002: J'hallucine, éd. Mille et une nuits.
  • 2004: Autoportrait d'une charogne: Lambeaux de mémoire II, éd. Plon
  • 2005: Le terrible, fictionalized biography of Ivan the Terrible, éd. Fayard
  • 2006: Le Fils du silence, éd. Fayard.
  • 2007: Ils ne savent plus dire "Je t'aime", éd. Fayard
  • 2008: L'ombre de Judas, éd. Fayard
  • 2009: Là où tu n'es plus, novel, éd. Fayard
  • 2011: Le prince de la mélancolie, novel Charles d'Orléans, éd. Pierre-Guillaume de Roux Éditions

Painting

  • 2002: Idoles, suivi de Avant-dernière toiles (with Yann Queffélec), Cercle d'Art.

Bibliography

  • Alain Bosquet, Les envoûtements de Jeanne Champion
  • Sarah Charlotte Rouncefield, Theme and Form in the Works of Jeanne Champion, University of Exeter, 1994

References