Marius Grout
Marius Grout (born 8 November 1903 Fauville-en-Caux – 1 May 1946 Le Havre) was a French writer.
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Life
His father was a postman in St. Saire near Neufchâtel-en-Bray. He chose teaching. In 1932, he joined the Religious Society of Friends.
In the late 1930s, he befriended a group of writers, which included Emile Danoën and his former pupil Pierre Aubery.
In 1937 he published his first book, Kagawa, through the Society of Friends. He won the Prix Goncourt in 1943 for his novel Passage of rights.
He died at Le Havre and was buried in Incheville.
A school is named after him in Rouen, a school in Montivilliers, and the Primary School in Saint-Saire.
Works
- Kagawa, biographie, 1937
- Le Poète et le Saint, essai, 1938
- Le Déluge, théâtre, 1939
- Musique d’Avent, Paris, Gallimard, 1941
- Mysticisme et poésie, Paris, Albin Michel, 1942
- Le vent se lève, Paris, Gallimard, 1942
- Passage de l'homme, Paris, Gallimard, 1943, Gallimard, Prix Goncourt
- Translated in English, by Emerson Lamb et published with an introduction by Henry Van Etten for Vantage Press, New York, 1962, When the man passed by.
- Poèmes, Paris, Gallimard, 1944
- Un Homme perdu, Paris, Gallimard, 1945
- Poèmes à l’inconnue, Paris, Le Seuil, 1945
- À un Jeune Poète, Paris, Éditions du Pavois, 1945
- Kagawa, le Gandhi japonais, Préf. de Toyohiko Kagawa (en), Paris, Presses d’Île-de-France, 1946
Bibliography
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