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Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet was a French writer and filmmaker. He was one of the figures most associated with the Nouveau Roman trend of the 1960s, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon. Robbe-Grillet was elected a member of the Académie française on 25 March 2004, succeeding Maurice Rheims at seat No. 32. He married Catherine Robbe-Grillet.
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Born 18 August 1922 · Died 18 February 2008 · Q216266
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2026· 2 entries
Moviefone: Alain Robbe-Grillet - Where to Watch
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2008· 4 entries
The Washington Post: French Writer, Filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet, 85
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The Guardian: Alain Robbe-Grillet dies at 85
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Died 2008-02-18.
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In Caen after succumbing to heart problems
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2004· 2 entries
In his eighties, he was never formally received by the Académie because of disputes regarding the Académie's reception procedures
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Career landmark: seat 32 of the Académie française (2004–2008).
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Annual award ACFK presented by Association of Czech Film Clubs (2003).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Sade Prize (2002).
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1984· 1 entry
Published what he described as an intentionally traditional autobiography, entitled Le Miroir qui revient, translated into English as Ghosts in the Mirror by Jo Levy (1988)
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded Mondello Prize (1982).
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1981· 1 entry
Robbe-Grillet and Yvone Lenard published Le Rendez-vous (The Meeting) in the United States as a textbook for intermediary French courses that included an original novel and grammar exercises
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1975· 1 entry
Robbe-Grillet published a book entitled La Belle Captive
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1963· 1 entry
Robbe-Grillet published For a New Novel (Pour un Nouveau Roman), a collection of previously published theoretical writings concerning the novel
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1962· 1 entry
Awarded Louis Delluc Prize for L'Immortelle (1962).
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1961· 1 entry
Worked with Alain Resnais, writing the script for Last Year at Marienbad (L'Année dernière à Marienbad), and he subsequently wrote and directed his own films
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1960· 1 entry
Was a signatory to the Manifesto of the 121 in support of the Algerian struggle for independence
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1957· 1 entry
One of his few novels to be set in a non-urban location, in this instance a banana plantation
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1955· 1 entry
And translated into English in 1958 by Richard Howard
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1954· 1 entry
Awarded Fénéon Prize for literature (1954).
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1949· 1 entry
But it was rejected by Gallimard, a major French publishing house, and only later published with minor corrections by his lifelong publisher Les Éditions de Minuit in 1978
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1945· 1 entry
Completed his diploma at the National Institute of Agronomy
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1922· 1 entry
Born 1922-08-18.
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