Lionel Ray
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Lionel Ray,, (born 19 January 1935 Mantes-la-Ville
) is a French poet
, and essayist.
. He published several collections under his real name, Robert Lorho, Associate of French language and literature professor at the Lycee Chaptal Khâgne. In 1970, he took the pseudonym of Lionel Ray. Lionel Ray is president of the Mallarmé Academy, he is also a member of committees of the journal la revue Europe, and Aujourd'hui.
He teaches creative writing at the University of Paris-Sorbonne 4. He is a father of four children from his first two marriages: Anne, Frank, Adrien, and Philippe Lorho. He lives in Paris
with his wife Sumana Sinha; she published her first novel in French Fenêtre sur l'abîme.
Mantes-la-Ville
Mantes-la-Ville is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris from the center....
) is a French poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, and essayist.
Biography
Born of a Breton father and a Walloon mother, he spent his childhood in the town of Mantes-la-JolieMantes-la-Jolie
Mantes-la-Jolie is a commune based in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris from the center. Mantes-la-Jolie is a sub-prefecture department.-History:...
. He published several collections under his real name, Robert Lorho, Associate of French language and literature professor at the Lycee Chaptal Khâgne. In 1970, he took the pseudonym of Lionel Ray. Lionel Ray is president of the Mallarmé Academy, he is also a member of committees of the journal la revue Europe, and Aujourd'hui.
He teaches creative writing at the University of Paris-Sorbonne 4. He is a father of four children from his first two marriages: Anne, Frank, Adrien, and Philippe Lorho. He lives in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
with his wife Sumana Sinha; she published her first novel in French Fenêtre sur l'abîme.
Awards
- 1965 Prix Guillaume ApollinairePrix Guillaume Apollinaire-Winners:* 2010 : Jean-Marie Barnaud for Fragments d'un corps incertain * 2009 : Jacques Ancet for L'identité obscure * 2008 : Alain Borer for Icare & I don’t...
- 1981 Mallarmé prizeMallarmé prizeThe Mallarmé prize is a poetry prize awarded each year by the Académie Mallarmé to a French speaking poet....
- 1995 Goncourt PrizePrix GoncourtThe Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"...
for poetry - 2001 Société des gens de lettresSociété des gens de lettresThe Sociéte des gens de lettres de France is a writers' association founded in 1838 by the notable French authors Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, and George Sand...
Grand Prize, for Pages d'ombre: poèmes. - Kowalski Prize of the city of Lyon
- Guillevic Prize of the city of Saint-Malo
Works
- Les Métamorphoses du biographe ; suivi de la parole possible. – Gallimard, 1971, 131 p.
- Lettre ouverte à Aragon sur le bon usage de la réalité. – Paris : Les Éditeurs français réunis, 1971, 111 p.
- L’Interdit est mon opéra. – Gallimard, 1973, 116 p.
- Arthur Rimbaud. - Seghers (Poètes d’aujourd’hui), 1976, 183 p. Nouvelle édition 2001.
- Partout ici même. – Gallimard, 1978, 191 p.
- Aveuglant aveuglé. – Saint-Laurent-du-Pont : Le Verbe et l’empreinte, 1981, np.
- Le Corps obscur. – Gallimard, 1981, 112 p.
- Nuages, nuit : poèmes. – Gallimard, 1983, 123 p.
- Empreintes. - Saint-Laurent-du-Pont : Le Verbe et l’empreinte, 1984, [6 p.].
- L’Inaltérable. - Saint-Laurent-du-Pont : Le Verbe et l’empreinte, 1984, [3 p.].
- Voyelles et consonne. - Saint-Laurent-du-Pont : Le Verbe et l’empreinte, 1984, [12 p.].
- Approches du lieu ; suivi de Lionel Ray et l'état chantant par Maurice Regnaut. – Moulins : Ipomée, 1986, 115 p.
- Le nom perdu : poèmes. – Gallimard, 1987, 127 p.
- Une sorte de ciel : poèmes. – Gallimard, 1990, 114 p. (Prix Artaud)
- Comme un château défait : poèmes. - Gallimard, 1993, 151 p. (Prix Supervielle 1994; Prix Goncourt de poésie 1995)
- Syllabes de sable : poèmes. - Gallimard, 1996, 170 p.
- Pages d'ombre: poèmes. Gallimard, 2000.
- Aragon : Seghers, "Poètes d'aujourd'hui", 2002 ISBN 9782232122064
- Matière de nuit : poèmes. Gallimard, 2004.
- 12 poetas bengalis : recueil de poésie bengalie in French and Spanish, with Sumana Sinha. - Ed. Lancelot, 2006. Murcia.
- Tout est chemins: Anthologie de la poésie bengalie in French with Sumana Sinha. - éd. Le Temps des cerises, Paris. 2007.
- L'invention des bibliothèques (les poèmes de Laurent Barthélemy): Gallimard, 2007.
- Le Procès de la vieille dame. Eloge de la poésie. Collection of essays. Éditions de la Différence. 2008.
Collaborations with painters
- Le dessin est une mémoire : autour de l’œuvre graphique de Le Yaouanc. – Association culturelle de la Faculté des lettres et des langues de l’Université de Poitiers : Éditions de la Licorne, 1996, np [32 p.].
- Plusieurs ouvrages sur et avec le peintre cubain Joaquin Ferrer : Joaquin Ferrer ou l'Imaginaire absolu (monograph, éd. Palantines, Quimper, 2001, 130 illustrations).
- Sumana: recueil de neuf poèmes d'amour dedicated to his wife, accompanied by the painter Bardet C.J. and Bengal translation by Sumana Sinha.
- Comme nuage et vent, recueil de 6 poèmes accompanied by 4 etchings by Els Baekelandt (Éditions Sanchez-Alamo, graphisme analogique de la zone opaque, Paris, 2006)
About Lionel Ray
- Jean-Paul Giraux, "Lionel Ray ou la modernité se moque de la modernité", Poésie/première no 21 février 2002
- Jean-Paul Giraux, "Lionel Ray et ce mythe appelé poésie", Poésie/première n°39, février 2008
- "Comme un château défait", Recueil N.30, Editions Champ Vallon, 1994, ISBN 9782876731868