Renée Massip
Renée Massip, (31 Mars 1907[1] - 21 March 2002) was a French writer[2] and journalist, winner of the 1963 Prix Interallié[3][4] and member of the jury of the Prix Femina.
Early life and education
Massip was born in south-western France, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department. Her parents were school principals. Her home town was Arette. She attended the École Normale in Pau, studying history and literature.
Career
Massip married the French journalist Roger Massip, and from 1931 to 1937, followed her husband who was then a French newspaper correspondent in Romania and Poland. In 1939, she became a journalist, and joined the desk of Havas, a French news and advertising agency. She lived in Lyon during World War II.
Massip worked for the French newspapers France-Soir and the literary section of Le Figaro. She was a permanent member of the French literary prize Prix Femina committee from 1972 to 1996.
Massip has written a dozen books, including Douce Lumiere, La Regente,[5] and La Vie Absente. In 1963 she published La Bête quaternaire, for which she received the Prix Interallié, and Le Rire de Sara for which she won the Grand Prize of the Catholic Novel in 1966.
Books
- 1945 L'Odyssée comporte un retour
- 1954 La Régente
- 1956 La Petite Anglaise
- 1958 Les Déesses
- 1963 La Bête quaternaire - prix Interallié
- 1961 La Main paternelle
- 1966 Le Rire de Sara - Grand prix catholique de littérature
- 1967 L'Aventure du lièvre blanc
- 1969 Les Torts réciproques
- 1970 L'Entente du couple
- 1971 À la santé de Dieu
- 1973 La Vie absente
- 1974 La Femme et l'Amitié
- 1976 Qu'avez-vous fait de lui
- 1977 Le Chat de Briarres
- 1979 Belle à jamais[6]
- 1981 Les Passants du siècle
References
- ↑ Margery Resnick; Isabelle De Courtivron (1 January 1984). Women writers in translation: an annotated bibliography, 1945-1982. Garland Pub. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-8240-9332-7.
- ↑ David J. Bond, "Renée Massip: Religion and The Text". Dalhousie French Studies, Vol. 51 (Summer 2000), pp. 174-183, Published by: Dalhousie University
- ↑ Books and Bookmen. Hansom Books. 1963. p. 49.
- ↑ Ernst Erich Noth (1964). Books Abroad. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 120.
- ↑ Walter Yust (1955). Britannica book of the year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc. p. 344.
- ↑ James Frederick Mason; Hélène Josephine Harvitt (1980). The French Review. American Association of Teachers of French. p. 366.