Lorand Gaspar

French poet
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IntroFrench poet
PlacesFrance
isPoet
Work fieldLiterature
Gender
Male
Birth28 February 1925, Târgu Mureș
Age99 years
The details

Biography

Lorand Gaspar (born 1925 in Târgu Mureș, Romania) is a Romanian–born French poet.

Life

In 1943, he enrolled at Palatine Joseph University of Technology and Economics (today: Budapest University of Technology and Economics) 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.

Awards

  • 1998 Prix Goncourt de la Poésie

Works

English Translations

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 978-9954-21-066-6. 
  • 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.

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