Dominique Rolin

Dominique Rolin (22 May 1913 – 15 May 2012) was a Belgian novelist.[1]

Dominique Rolin
Born22 May 1913
Ixelles
Died15 May 2012(2012-05-15) (aged 98)
Paris
OccupationWriter

Dominique Rolin was a granddaughter of Léon Cladel.[2] 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), Prix Femina
  • 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 Hellens prijs, (1978), for L'Enragé.
  • Prix Kléber Haedens, (1980), for L’Infini chez soi.
  • Prix Roland Jouvenel of the Académie française, (1990), for Vingt chambres d’hôtel.
  • Prix Thyde Monnier, (1991), entire œuvre.
  • Grand prix national des Lettres, (2001), entire oeuvre.

References
  1. "Dominique Rolin, écrivaine de l'infini amoureux, est morte". Lemonde.fr. Retrieved 2013-01-03.
  2. Henri Peyre, French Novelists of Today, New York: Oxford University Press, 1967, p.438


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