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Henry de Montherlant
Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant was a French essayist, novelist, and dramatist. His most famous play written in 1942 is La Reine morte, still studied today in French high schools. It was translated into English under the title 'Queen After Death'. He was elected to the Académie française in 1960.
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culture · French writer (1895–1972) · writer · playwright · novelist · poet · also Henry de Montherlant, Montherlant
Born 20 April 1895 · Died 21 September 1972 · Q379956
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2009· 1 entry
New York Review Books returned Montherlant to print in English by issuing Kilmartin's translation of Chaos and Night (1963) with a new introduction by Gary Indiana
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1993· 1 entry
Pierre Lapaire noted that even among his detractors, "Montherlant's style is recognized for its richness, power and classicism
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1972· 3 entries
Died 1972-09-21.
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Committed suicide, shooting himself in the head after swallowing a cyanide capsule
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“O artista coloca na sua arte o que não conseguiu colocar na própria existência. Foi por sentir-se infeliz que Deus criou o mundo.”
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1968· 1 entry
According to Roger Peyrefitte, the 72-year-old Montherlant was attacked and beaten up by a group of youths outside a movie theatre in Paris because he had groped one of them
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1960· 3 entries
Career landmark: seat 29 of the Académie française (1960–1972).
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Montherlant was elected a member of the Académie française, taking the seat which had belonged to André Siegfried, a political writer
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Became a member of the Académie Française
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1942· 1 entry
Is La Reine morte, still studied today in French high schools
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1934· 4 entries
Awarded Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française (1934).
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Awarded Northcliffe Prize (1934).
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Was considered among France's leading writers
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And the highly anti-feminist tetralogy Les Jeunes Filles (The Young Girls) (1936–1939), which sold millions of copies and was translated into 13 languages
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1920· 2 entries
Awarded Montyon Prize (1920).
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Career landmark: general secretary (1920–1924).
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1916· 1 entry
During World War I, he was wounded and decorated
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1914· 1 entry
And 1915, Montherlant went to live with his doting grandmother and eccentric uncles
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1905· 1 entry
Reading Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz gave him a lifelong fascination with Ancient Rome and prompted a proficient interest in Latin
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1895· 1 entry
Born 1895-04-20.
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