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A Short Biography of Georges Bernanos

Author Name:

Georges Bernanos

Born As:

Georges Bernanos

Other Names:

Georges Bernanos

Born:

21 Feb 1888

Died:

5 Jun 1948




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Novelist and polemicist                          
Selected Works:

Sous le soleil de Satan 1926 - published in English as Under the Sun of Satan, made into a film by the same name by Maurice Pialat in 1987. Won the Palme d'Or at Cannes for it.
L'imposture - 1927
La joie - 1929, winner of the Prix Femina
La grande peur des bien-pensants - 1931
Jeanne relapse et sainte - 1934
Un crime - 1935

Journal d'un curé de campagne 1936, winner of the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française, published in English as Diary of a Country Priest, made into a film by Robert Bresson in 1951.

Nouvelle histoire de Mouchette 1937, made into the 1967 film Mouchette by Robert Bresson
Les grands cimetières sous la lune - 1938
Scandale de la vérité - 1939
Nous autres français 1939
Monsieur Ouine - 1943
Lettre aux anglais - 1946, originally published in Rio de Janeiro in 1942
La France contre les robots - 1947, originally published in Rio de Janeiro in 1946
Français, si vous saviez - collection of articles written between 1945 - 1948, 1961
Le chemin de la Croix-des-Âmes - 1948
Dialogues des carmélites -Dialogues of the Carmelites
1949 - screen and later operatic libretto adaptation of Gertrud von Le Fort's Cries from the Scaffold
Les enfants humiliés - 1949
Un mauvais rêve - 1950
La liberté, pour quoi faire? - 1953
Combat pour la vérité; Correspondance inédite 1904 - 1934 1961
Combat pour la liberté; Correspondance inédite 1934 - 1948, 1961
La vocation spirituelle de la France - collection of articles assembled by J.-L. Bernanos - 1975
Les prédestinés (includes "Sainte Dominique"  - 1926
"Jeanne relapse et sainte," and "Frère Martin"  - 1943, 1983
Lettres retrouvées. Correspondance inédite - 1904-1948, 1983.