Christian Mégret

Mégret Christian (11 November 1904, Vincennes – 1987), was a 20th-century French journalist and novelist, winner of the Prix Femina in 1957.

Life

Mégret Christian began his career as a colonial administrator in Togo, which inspired his first novel Anthropophages ('Cannibals') which appeared in 1934. He became a journalist at Jour in 1933 and then at Carrefour from 1945. He led a parallel career as a novelist, and in 1957 was awarded the Prix Femina for his work Le Carrefour des solitudes. His lovers included Princess Ghislaine de Polignac, whose intimate knowledge of the relationship of Baron de Redé and Arturo Lopez enabled Mégret to pen Danaë, a roman à clef based on the pair.[1]

Works

Anthropophages, éditions Or (1934)
Ils sont déjà des hommes, Librairie Fayard Arthème (1938)
Les Fausses Compagnies , Plon (1939)
Jacques, Plon (1941)
L'Absent, Plon (1946)
Carte forcée, Plon (1947)
C'était écrit, Plon (1948)
Danaë, Editions Robert Laffont (1953)
Le Carrefour des solitudes , Editions René Julliard (1957)
Haïssable moi, Grasset (1963)
Les Chimères bleues de Chandernagor, Robert Laffont (1964)
Un agent double, Gallimard (1967)
J'ai perdu mon ombre, Denoë (1974)
La Croix du sud, Beetle editions (1984)
Les Liens du sang , Vertigo editions (1985)

References

"Princesse Ghislaine de Polignac". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-04-15.

Laureates of the Prix Femina
1904–1925	1904 Myriam Harry 1905 Romain Rolland 1906 André Corthis 1907 Colette Yver 1908 Édouard Estaunié 1909 Edmond Jaloux 1910 Marguerite Audoux 1911 Louis de Robert 1912 Jacques Morel 1913 Camille Marbo 1914 1915 1916 1917 Maurice Larrouy 1918 Henri Bachelin 1919 Roland Dorgelès 1920 Edmond Gojon 1921 Raymond Escholier 1922 Jacques de Lacretelle 1923 Jeanne Galzy 1924 Charles Derennes 1925 Joseph Delteil
1926–1950	1926 Charles Silvestre 1927 Marie Le Franc 1928 Dominique Dunois 1929 Georges Bernanos 1930 Marc Chadourne 1931 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1932 Ramon Fernandez 1933 Geneviève Fauconnier 1934 Robert Francis 1935 Claude Silve 1936 Louise Hervieu 1937 Raymonde Vincent 1938 Félix de Chazournes 1939 Paul Vialar 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 Éditions de Minuit (publisher) 1945 Anne-Marie Monnet 1946 Michel Robida 1947 Gabrielle Roy 1948 Emmanuel Roblès 1949 Maria Le Hardouin 1950 Serge Groussard
1951–1975	1951 Anne de Tourville 1952 Dominique Rolin 1953 Zoé Oldenbourg 1954 Gabriel Veraldi 1955 André Dhôtel 1956 François-Régis Bastide 1957 Christian Mégret 1958 Françoise Mallet-Joris 1959 Bernard Privat 1960 Louise Bellocq 1961 Henri Thomas 1962 Yves Berger 1963 Roger Vrigny 1964 Jean Blanzat 1965 Robert Pinget 1966 Irène Monesi 1967 Claire Etcherelli 1968 Marguerite Yourcenar 1969 Jorge Semprún 1970 François Nourissier 1971 Angelo Rinaldi 1972 Roger Grenier 1973 Michel Dard 1974 René-Victor Pilhes 1975 Claude Faraggi
1976–2000	1976 Marie-Louise Haumont 1977 Régis Debray 1978 François Sonkin 1979 Pierre Moinot 1980 Jocelyne François 1981 Catherine Hermary-Vieille 1982 Anne Hébert 1983 Florence Delay 1984 Bertrand Visage 1985 Hector Bianciotti 1986 René Belletto 1987 Alain Absire 1988 Alexandre Jardin 1989 Sylvie Germain 1990 Pierrette Fleutiaux 1991 Paula Jacques 1992 Anne-Marie Garat 1993 Marc Lambron 1994 Olivier Rolin 1995 Emmanuel Carrère 1996 Genevière Brisac 1997 Dominique Noguez 1998 François Cheng 1999 Maryline Desbiolles 2000 Camille Laurens
2001–present	2001 Marie Ndiaye 2002 Chantal Thomas 2003 Dai Sijie 2004 Jean-Paul Dubois 2005 Régis Jauffret 2006 Nancy Huston 2007 Éric Fottorino 2007 Gwenaëlle Aubry 2008 Jean-Louis Fournier 2010 Patrick Lapeyre 2011 Simon Liberati 2012 Patrick Deville 2013 Léonora Miano 2014 Yanick Lahens 2015 Christophe Boltanski 2016 Marcus Malte

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