Emmanuel Roblès

Emmanuel Roblès
Born	(1914-05-04)4 May 1914 Oran, French Algeria
Died	22 February 1995(1995-02-22) (aged 80) Boulogne, Hauts-de-Seine
Occupation	Novelist, screenwriter
Nationality	French
Notable works	Montserrat, 1948
Notable awards	Prix Femina 1948

Emmanuel Roblès (4 May 1914 in Oran, French Algeria – 22 February 1995 in Boulogne, Hauts-de-Seine) was a French author and playwright. He was elected a member of the Académie Goncourt in 1973. He was one of many influential pieds-noirs of his time. The Prix Emmanuel Roblès literary award was established in his honour in 1990.

Selected bibliography

• La Vallée du paradis (1940)
• Travail d'homme (1942)
• La Marie des quatres vents (1942), short story
• Nuits sur le monde (1944), short stories
• L'Action (1946)
• Les Hauteurs de la ville (1948), winner of the Prix Femina
• Montserrat (1948), play
• La Mort en face (1951), short stories
• Cela s'appelle l'aurore (1952)
• Federica (1954)
• Les Couteaux (1956), novel about Mexico
• L'Homme d'Avril (1959), short stories (title story about Japan)
• Le Vésuve (1961)
• Jeunes saisons (1961), autobiography
• La Remontée du fleuve (1962)
• La Croisière (1968)
• Un Printemps d'Italie (1970)
• L'Ombre et la rive (1972), short stories
• Saison violente (1974)
• Un Amour sans fin (1976)
• Les Sirènes (1977)
• L'Arbre invisible (1979)
• Venise en hiver (1981)
• La chasse à la licorne (1985)
• Norma, ou, L'Exil infini (1988)
• Albert Camus et la trêve civile (1988), criticism
• Les Rives du fleuve bleu (1990), short stories
• Cristal des jours (1990), poetry
• L'Herbe des ruines (1992)
• Erica (1994), short stories
• Camus, frère de soleil (1995), biography

External links

• Biography
• Emmanuel Roblès at IMDb