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Lorand Gaspar (born 1925 Târgu Mureş, Romania) is a French poet.

Contents 1 Life 2 Awards 3 Works 3.1 English Translations 3.2 French Language Works 4 References 5 External links

Life

In 1943, he enrolled at Politehnica University of Bucharest in Engineering, was mobilized months later, and then imprisoned in a labor camp. He escaped in March 1945, and surrendered to the French in Pfullendorf. He moved to France, where he studied medicine, becoming later a surgeon in France, then in Jerusalem, where he lived for sixteen years, and in Bethlehem and Tunis. He lives in Paris, where he is involved in medical research dealing with human psychology.

He published his first verse collection in 1966, Le Quatrième État de la matière (Flammarion).

He has published a number of prose works and travel books as a photographer.

He mastered several languages: to the languages learned as a child, Hungarian, Romanian and German, and later French, English, Latin, Greek and Arabic. He has translated (in collaboration with Sarah Clair), Spinoza, Rilke, Seferis, D. H. Lawrence, Peter Riley, and Pilinsky.^[1][2]

Awards

• 1998 Prix Goncourt de la Poésie

Works

English Translations

• "from Nuits: An evening in front of the fireplace at Saint Rémy du Val", Jacket 14, translated by Peter Riley, July 2001

• Mary Ann Caws, ed (2004). "Lorand Gaspar". Yale anthology of 20th-century French poetry. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300100105. http://books.google.com/books?id=YCPUYc-AygYC&lpg=PA337&ots=F_FPNEWiD9&dq=Lorand%20Gaspar&pg=PA393#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

French Language Works

• Le Quatrième État de la matière Paris: Flammarion, 1966. Prix Apollinaire, 1967
• Gisements Paris: Flammarion, 1968.
• Histoire de la Palestine Paris: Maspero, 1968 et 1978.
• Palestine, année zéro Paris: Maspero, 1970.
• Sol absolu, Paris, Gallimard, 1972.
  • Sol absolu. Translator Jalāl Ḥakmāwī. Marsam Editions. 2006. ISBN 9789954210666. 
• Approche de la parole, Paris, Gallimard, 1978.
• Corps corrosifs, Fata Morgana, 1978.
• Egée suivi de Judée, Paris, Gallimard, 1980.
• Sol absolu, Corps corrosifs et autres textes, avec un essai d’autobiographie. Paris: Gallimard. 1982. 
• Feuilles d'observation. Paris : Gallimard, 1986.
• Carnets de Patmos. Cognac : Le temps qu'il fait, 1991.
• Égée, Judée, suivi d’extraits de Feuilles d’observation et de La maison près de la mer. Paris : Gallimard, 1993.
• Apprentissage. Paris : Deyrolle, 1994.
• Carnets de Jérusalem, Cognac, Le temps qu'il fait, 1997.
• Patmos et autres poèmes. Paris : Gallimard, 2001.
• Derrière le dos de Dieu. Paris : Gallimard, 2010.

References

External links

• John Taylor (2005). "The Search for a Healing Luminosity". Paths to contemporary French literature. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 9781412804790. http://books.google.com/books?id=9GBD0DyBwJQC&pg=PA295&lpg=PA295&dq=Lorand+Gaspar&source=bl&ots=DGZWkj0ABN&sig=IZGpr_qgqpUfl3xtJuEKP31zGgA&hl=en&ei=1Q5fS6z3HaK-MrulsIcG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CCYQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=Lorand%20Gaspar&f=false. 
• Lorand Gaspar", Europe, (n°918, octobre 2005)
• "An interview with Lorand Gaspar", Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Volume 7, Issue 2 Autumn 2003, pages 170 - 177, Elaine DalMolin

This article incorporates information from the revision as of 2010-01-25 of the equivalent article on the French Wikipedia.

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