Alain Bosquet

Alain Bosquet, born Anatoliy Bisk (Анато́лий Биск) (28 March 1919 – 17 March 1998), was a French poet. In 1925, his family moved to Brussels and he studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, then at the Sorbonne. He fought in the Belgian army in 1940, then in the French army. In 1942, he fled with his family to Manhattan, where he helped edit the Free French magazine Voix de France. He enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II, and received U.S. citizenship. He met his wife, Norma Caplan, in Berlin. He was Special Adviser to the mission on behalf of the Allied Control Council Quadripartite Council of Berlin from 1945 to 1951. In 1947, with Alexander Koval and Édouard Roditi founded the German-language literary review, Das Lot ("The Sounding Line"), six numbers from October 1947 until June, 1952, with publisher Karl Heinz Henssel in Berlin. In 1957, Galerie Parnass (Wuppertal) published the Artist's book Micro Macro with poems by Alain Bosquet and lithographs from Heinz Trökes in 50 copies. In 1958, he taught French literature at Brandeis University, then American literature at the University of Lyon from 1959 to 1960. He worked as a freelance critic for Combat, Le Monde, and Le Figaro. He became a French citizen in 1980. He headed the jury of the Max Jacob Prize, the Académie Mallarmé and was a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. 1968 Prix de poésie le Metais-Larivière (by the Académie française) 1986 Prix Chateaubriand 1989 Prix Goncourt de la poésie 1991 Grand prix de la poésie de la ville de Paris 1992 Prix de la langue de France Officer of the Legion of Honour Bronze Star Medal Les mois de l'année La vie est clandestine 1945 A la mémoire de ma planète 1948 Langue morte 1951 Quel royaume oublié 1955 have a nice day and forget you Deuxième testament 1959, Prix Max Jacob Maître objet 1962 Quatre testaments et autres poèmes 1967 100 notes pour une solitude 1969 Notes pour un amour 1972 Penser contre soi 1973 Notes pour un pluriel 1974 Livre du doute et de la grâce 1977 Vingt et une nature morte ou mourantes 1978 Poème un 1979 Les enfants 1980 Raconte-moi le passé.