Marcel Thiry

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Marcel Thiry
Born	(1897-03-13)13 March 1897 Charleroi, Belgium
Died	5 September 1977(1977-09-05) (aged 80) Vaux-sous-Chêvremont, Belgium
Nationality	Belgium
Occupation	poet

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Marcel Thiry (Charleroi, 13 March 1897 - Vaux-sous-Chêvremont, 5 September 1977) was a French-speaking Belgian poet. During World War I, he and his brother Oscar served in the Belgian Expeditionary Corps in Russia.

He was awarded the Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud in 1976 for Toi qui pâlis au nom de Vancouver, a book of poems reminiscent of Cendrars and Apollinaire. He is the father of virologist Lise Thiry.

Works

Toi qui pâlis au nom de Vancouver (1924)
Échec au temps (1945)
Nouvelles du grand possible (1958)
Lettre aux jeunes Wallons (1960)

External links

Marcel Thiry on wallonie-en-ligne.net (in French)

References

France, Peter (Ed.) (1995). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-866125-8.

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Persondata
Name	Thiry, Marcel
Alternative names
Short description	Belgian writer
Date of birth	13 March 1897
Place of birth	Charleroi, Belgium
Date of death	5 September 1977
Place of death	Vaux-sous-Chêvremont, Belgium

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