Frédéric Jacques Temple


Frédéric Jacques Temple is a French poet and writer. His work includes poems, novels, travel stories and essays.
He also realised translations of English, Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell)

Biography

In his native city of Montpellier, Frédéric Jacques Temple was a boarder at the college of the Enclos Saint-François where, he said, "music and art counted as much as studies. He will celebrate this mythical place, now disappeared, in L'Enclos.
From 1943 he participated to the Italian campaign with the French Expeditionary Corps of general Juin. From this experience of war, which profoundly marked it, testifies a narrative like La Route de San Romano and his Poèmes de guerre.
Demobilized, he became a journalist in Morocco and then in Montpellier. In 1954, he was appointed Director of French Television Broadcasting for Languedoc-Roussillon. He will hold office until 1986.
The meeting with Blaise Cendrars, in 1949, was decisive in his vocation as a writer. He will pay homage to him in his poem "Merry-go-round". Like the author of the 'Transsiberian', Temple is a poet from around the world. The work of this man of the South, while deeply inscribed in his native region, has never ceased to open up to other horizons and this taste for
travel sometimes suggested an American poet.
This openness to the world is manifested in his friendships with Henry Miller, Henk Breuker, Curzio Malaparte, Joseph Delteil, Richard Aldington, Camilo José Cela, Lawrence Durrell, Jean Carrière, Gaston Miron...
Ce friend of painters has often collaborated with them to create precious and sought-after books.
As a child, Temple was a "book-eater", fascinated by the novelists of the adventure and in 2013 the prix Apollinaire, seen as the prix Goncourt of poetry. He is a member of the comité d'honneur de la at Saint-Malo.

Work

Main radio programmes