Claude Mourthé
Claude Mourthé | |
|---|---|
| Born | 6 March 1932 |
| Died | 13 March 2024 (aged 92) Agen, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Education | University of Toulouse |
| Occupation(s) | Writer Film director |
Claude Mourthé (6 March 1932 – 13 March 2024) was a French writer, translator and film director.[1]
Biography
[edit]Born in Cazères on 6 March 1932, Mourthé earned a degree in modern literature from the University of Toulouse. He worked as a radio director from 1959 to 1993 and as a television director for TF1 from 1974 to 1989.[2][3] He was also a producer for France Culture. He was a critic for Le Magazine Littéraire and Le Figaro Magazine.
Mourthé was the author of a dozen books, including Soudain l'éternité, which won him the Prix Chateaubriand et du rayonnement français.[4] He received the Prix Guillaume Apollinaire in 1999 for his collection Dit plus bas.
Claude Mourthé died in Agen on 13 March 2024, at the age of 92.[5]
Works
[edit]Novels
[edit]- La Caméra (1970)
- Amour noir (1971)
- Lettre à un mort (1971)
- L'enlèvement (1972)
- Un pas dans la forêt (1976)
- Le Temps des fugues (1980)
- L'Amour parfait (1986)
- Le printemps fou (1992)
- Une mort de théâtre (1994)
- Paysage changeant (1996)
- La Perspective amoureuse (1996)
- Un état de mélancolie (1997)
- Soudain, l'éternité (1998)
Poetry
[edit]- Nuit demeure (1994)
- Dit plus bas (1999)
- Voici l'homme (2000)
- Engrammes (2002)
- Opus incertain (2018)
Essays
[edit]- Giono l'Italien (1995)
- Shakespeare (2006)
- Shakespeare, scènes célèbres (2008)
- Shakespeare, Comme il vous plaira (2016)
Decorations
[edit]- Cross for Military Valour
- Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
References
[edit]- ^ "Mourthé, Claude (1932-2024)". Bibliothèque national de France (in French).
- ^ Mourthé, Claude (17 April 2016). ""La Tragédie de Macbeth" de Shakespeare, adaptation de Claude Mourthé". France Culture (in French). Retrieved 17 March 2024.
- ^ "En 1979, Claude Mourthé tournait ici avec Patrick Bruel". La Dépêche du Midi (in French). Auvillar. 25 December 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
- ^ "C. Mourthé, Shakespeare (Folio-Biographies)". Fabula (in French).
- ^ "Carnet noir : l'hommage gersois au journaliste et écrivain Claude Mourthé". La Dépêche du Midi (in French). 16 March 2024. Retrieved 17 March 2024.