Bernard Frank
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Bernard Frank | |
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Born | Neuilly-sur-Seine, France | 11 October 1929
Died | 3 November 2006 Paris, France | (aged 77)
Occupation | Writer |
Bernard Frank (11 October 1929 – 3 November 2006) was a French journalist and writer.
Early life
Bernard Frank was raised in a comfortable family, where his father was a bank manager. After his baccalauréat, he started a Khâgne at the Lycée Pasteur but was expelled for bad conduct. He tried again to complete his preparatory classes at the lycée Condorcet, but abandoned them out of boredom during the second trimester.
At the age of 20, Frank met
Career and journalism
During 1952–1953, Frank was in charge of the literary column in
He also contributed to
At the end of 1961, Frank met the journalist Jean Daniel while hospitalised in a Neuilly clinic, where their mutual friend, the editor Claude Perdriel, thought "perhaps maliciously"[2] to introduce them to one another. He again contributed to the Nouvel Observateur in the latter half of the 1960s.
Awards
Frank won the
Death
Frank died of a heart attack 3 November 2006, while dining in a restaurant in the 8th Arrondissement of Paris. His wife said that he was discussing politics at the moment of his death.
Works
- 1952 : Grognards et hussards
- 1953 : Géographie universelle
- 1953 : Les Rats
- 1955 : Israël
- 1955 : L'Illusion comique
- 1956 : Le Dernier des Mohicans
- 1958 : La Panoplie littéraire
- 1970 : Un Siècle débordé
- 1980 : Solde
- 2001(?) : Portraits et Aphorismes
Notes
- ^ Jérôme Garcin, Au bonheur de Frank, Nouvel Observateur Hebdo, N°1671-14/11/1996
- ^ Collectif, Pour Jean Daniel, Dreux, 1990, pp. 83–84.
References
- Translated from the French Wikipedia article Bernard Frank.