Henry Bauchau
Henry Bauchau was a Belgian psychoanalyst, lawyer, and author of French prose and poetry.Biography
Henry Bauchau was born in Mechelen, Belgium on 22 January 1913. He became a trial lawyer in Brussels in 1936 and was a member of the Belgian Resistance in the Ardennes during World War II.
He was married to Mary Kozyrev; their son is the actor Patrick Bauchau. They lived for a time in Gstaad, Switzerland.
Bauchau died in Paris, France on 21 September 2012, aged 99.Publishing
From 1945 to 1951 he worked in publishing. In 1946, he moved to Paris.
He was a friend of Albert Camus, André Gide, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida.Awards
- 1990 Royal Academy of Belgian Literature
- 2002 International Latin Union prize of Romance Language Literatures
Works
- Géologie, 1958
- Gengis Khan, Mermod, 1960
- La Machination,
- Œdipe sur la route, Actes Sud, 1990,
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- La Chine intérieure
- Essai sur la vie de Mao Tsé-toung, Flammarion, 1982,
- Poésie: 1950-1984, Actes Sud, 1986
- Le régiment noir, Éperonniers, 1987
- Diotime et les lions: récit, Actes Sud, 1991,
- L'écriture et la circonstance, Presses universitaires de Louvain, UCL, 1992
- Antigone: roman, Actes Sud, 1997,
- La déchirure, Editions Labor, 1998,
- Journal d'Antigone: 1989-1997, Actes Sud, 1999
- L'enfant bleu: roman, Actes sud, 2004,
- Le boulevard périphérique: roman, Actes sud, 2008,
- Déluge, Actes sud, 2010,
