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René Maran
René Maran (Fort-de-France, Martinique, France. 8 November 1887 – 9 May 1960) was a French poet and novelist, and the first black writer to win the French Prix Goncourt (in 1921).
Biography.
Maran was born on the boat carrying his parents to Fort-de-France where he lived until the age of seven. After that he went to Gabon, where his father Héménéglide Maran was in the colonial service. After attending boarding school in Bordeaux,
Max Jacob, "Les Oeuvres Burlesques et Mystiques de Frère Matorel"
- René Maran, "La Vie Intérieure", Guyanese writer
- Charles Péguy, "Le Porche du mystère de la deuxième vertu"
- Saint-John Perse, pen name of Marie-René Alexis Saint-Léger, "Eloges"
- Victor Segalen, "Stèles", an edition of 81 copies (see also "Stèles, Peintures, Équipée" 1955, and "Stelae" 1969, a translation into English by Nathaniel