Celia Bertin La Comedienne The Actress 1963 Signed by Bertin French
Célia Bertin LA COMÉDIENNE Bernard Grasset, Paris, 1963. Softcover wrapped in protective paper. Size: 19,2 x 14,2 cm. Pp. 279. This copy is inscribed and signed by the author. Uncut edges; the protective paper is frayed and a few tars on it. Overall, a clean copy. For condition and details see scans.
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Célia Bertin (born October 22, 1920 Paris) is a French writer, biographer, and winner of the 1953 Prix Renaudot. Celia Bertin is an Officer of the Legion of Honour, and an Officer of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. After her secondary education at the Lycée Fénelon, she obtained a degree in literature at the Sorbonne. She wrote a thesis on the influence of the Russian novel (Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov) on the contemporary English novel (Arnold Bennett to Virginia Woolf). During World War II, she joined the Resistance, and in 1944 she was sent by the Ministry of Information to Switzerland. After the war, she lived in Cagnes-sur-Mer, and Saint-Paul-de-Vence. She published her first novel, The Parade of the wicked, in 1946. In 1951, she participated in the founding of the literary magazine Roman, with Pierre de Lescure, published in St. Paul de Vence. She moved to Paris in 1953, when she won the Prix Renaudot for The Last Innocence. She translates from English and Italian and published numerous articles (in Le Figaro Literature, Arts, and La Revue de Paris). supremeauctiononlinesoftware.widgets.FeedbackWidgetBasicFree. supreme supremewidgets supremeauctiononlinesoftware.widgets.EbayGalleryZ. supremewidgets supremeauctiononlinesoftware.widgets.GalleryBasicFree.
