Geneviève Duhamelet

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Geneviève Pauline Duhamelet (8 January 1890 – 22 February 1980) was a French woman of letters. Novelist, poet, biographer and essayist, she was a member of the Society of Norman Writers and was honorary president of the Catholic Writers.

Biography

Geneviève Duhamelet was born at the 17th arrondissement of Paris. The French Academy awarded Duhamelet the Prix d'Académie in 1937 and the Prix Alice-Louis-Barthou in 1946 and 1959 for the body of her work.

She died at the 14th arrondissement of Paris.

Works

  • Les Inépousées (1919; awarded the Montyon Prize by the Académie française in 1920)
  • Rue du Chien-qui-pêche (1925; awarded the Montyon Prize by the Académie française)
  • Tout feu tout flamme (1930; awarded the Prix Sobrier-Arnould by the Académie française in 1931)
  • Plus vous renoncerez... (1933; awarded the Prix Juteau-Duvigneaux by the Académie française in 1934)
  • René Bazin, romancier catholique et français (1935)
  • La Vie et la Mort d'Eugénie de Guérin (1948; 1984)
  • Mademoiselle d'Airoles: fondatrice de l'U.C.S.S. (1949; awarded the Prix Constant-Dauguet by the Académie française in 1950)
  • La Petite Fille d'en face (1950)
  • Henri Ghéon. L’homme né de la guerre (1951)
  • Ernest Psichari. Le centurion (1952)
  • Mère Marie-Xavier (1953; awarded the Prix Juteau-Duvigneaux by the Académie française in 1954)
  • Mozart (1956; 1960)
  • Tout l'été, poèmes (1958)
  • Anne Frank, la petite fille de la maison du fond (1959)

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