Roparz Hemon
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Roparz Hemon (18 November 1900 in Brest – 29 June 1978 in Dublin) was a Breton author and scholar of Breton expression.
He was the author of numerous dictionaries, grammars, poems and short stories. He also founded Gwalarn, a literary journal in Breton where many young authors published their first writings during the 1920s and 1930s.
Hemon served in the French Army at the beginning of the Second World War, where he was wounded and taken prisoner by the Germans.
Back in Brest in August 1940, he took back publishing Gwalarn. In November 1940, he was appointed at Radio Roazhon-Breizh, Breton language weekly broadcast set up by the Propagandastaffel[1]. From 1941, he directed the weekly publication Arvor, where he made several anti-semitic statements[2]. In October 1942, Hemon was appointed by Leo Weisgerber to help found the "Celtic Institute of Britanny". Hemon rendered other services to the Germans, like helping in constituting files against préfet Ripert.
At the Liberation, Hemon fled to Germany; he returned in 1945, was imprisoned for one year, and sentenced to ten years of Indignité nationale[1]
He went in exile to Ireland.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Breton literature during German Occupation, Mercator, The University of Wales
- ^ (French) Roparz Hémon, Arvor, l'antisémitisme et le PNB, en janvier 1944, Les déclarations antisémites de Roparz Hemon
