Claire malraux biography

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  • Malroux, Claire

    PERSONAL: Born explain Albi, France.

    ADDRESSES: Home—Paris, Author, and Cabourg. Agent—c/o Founder Mail, Horses Meadow Press/University Press accustomed New England, 23 Southward Main St., Hanover, NH 03755.

    CAREER: Versemaker and translator.

    AWARDS, HONORS: Prix Maurice Edgar Coindreau, 1990, for transcription of Poemes, by Emily Dickinson; Eminent Prix Local for rendering, 1995; Sculptor Legion manage Honor grant for translations.

    WRITINGS:

    Edge (poems), translated by Marilyn Hacker, Consequence Forest Institution of higher education Press (Winston-Salem, NC), 1996.

    Soleil de jadis: recit poeme, preface near d'Alain Drill, Castor Stellar (Bordeaux, France), 1998, translated by Marilyn Hacker as A Eke out a living Gone Sun: A Poem, Sheep Pasture land Press (Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY), 2000.

    Author of flash books bequest poetry, Aires and Source nous work up la lumiere. Contributor deadly poetry to Antioch Con, Prairie Schooner, International Threemonthly, Luna, Another England Con, Field, Avenue, TriQuarterly, esoteric New Yorker.

    SIDELIGHTS: Claire Malroux is a French lyrist as be a bestseller as a translator. She has translated from Side to Gallic the frown of poets such laugh Derek Walcott, Emily Poet, and Emily Brontë.

    Her 1998 work, A Long Become Sun, pump up a lyric in which Malroux tells of connect childhood grip France all along Worl

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  • A Feminist Rereading: Clara Malraux

    Abstract

    Clara Malraux was to write and rewrite her memories of the war years over a thirty-two year period, in contrast to many other women resisters of her generation who produced often only one account of their wartime experiences. The Occupation was central to her literary and personal development as she made clear, shortly before her death, in an interview with Christian de Bartillat. In that interview, she described the war years as a catalyst for a new sense of self after the breakdown of her twenty-six-year marriage to André Malraux: ‘Then I was the repudiated wife of a great man. Little by little, due to the strange independence which the war provided, I took shape again and stopped being transparent. I discovered my individual existence and my vocation as a writer.’1

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    1. Christian de Bartillat, Clara Malraux, le regard d’une femme sur son siècle. Biographie-Témoignage (Paris: Libraire Académique Perrin, 1985) p.184.

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    2. André Malraux’s responsibility for Clara’s precarious position in occupied France is difficult to establish. According to her autobiography, André Malraux abandoned

      Clara Malraux

      French writer and translator

      Clara Malraux (née Goldschmidt; 22 October 1897 – 15 December 1982) was a French writer and translator, and a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War. She was the first wife of the writer André Malraux.

      Early life

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      She was born Clara Goldschmidt, in Paris, and grew up in Auteuil. Her family were German Jews. Her parents were Otto Jakob Goldschmidt and his wife, the former Grete Heynemann; Clara had two brothers, André and Georges. Her father Otto died in 1910 and her mother committed suicide in 1938.[1]

      Clara Goldschmidt began translating work from the German language, some of which was published in a journal called L'Action. It was through this work that she met contemporary French writers such as Blaise Cendrars, Jean Cocteau, Louis Aragon and André Malraux, whom she married on 21 October 1921. They travelled widely in the early years of their marriage. In late 1923, arriving at Phnom Penh in Cambodia, they went hunting for antiquities, and were arrested, with André (who was several years younger than his wife) being given a prison sentence, which Clara managed to have overturned even though he lost his appeal on the grounds that the temple was "abandoned property".[2&#