Joseph Peyré


Joseph Peyré was a French writer. He won the Prix Goncourt in 1935 for Sang et Lumières.

Life

His father was a schoolteacher. He studied at Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, at the Lycee Louis-Barthou, then Paris and Bordeaux, he went into journalism.
Three themes animate the work of the "novelist of loneliness and the exaltation of man":
Joseph Peyre has also devoted several books to his native Béarn, The Pit and the house, my Bearn basque to the sea, and the Basque Country: Basque John, The Bridge of spells.

Posterity

His memory still lives, in Vic-Bihl taurine where tradition persists. The "trophy Joseph Peyre, presented annually by the Peña Garlin of taurine, rewards the triumph of novilladas summer.
Aydie, the birthplace of Peyre, is part of the canton of Garlin; College of Garlin named Joseph Peyre.

Works