Henri Thomas

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Henri Thomas (7 December 1912 – 3 November 1993) was a French writer and poet.

Life

Henri Thomas was born at

in 1940, as were the majority of his literary productions (novels, short stories, journals, poems, essays, etc.) for the next forty-odd years. In the 1940s he did his military service, got married, worked on a number of literary reviews and separated from his wife.

In 1945, Thomas took a job with the BBC in London and lived and worked there for about ten years. Also during this period, he met the woman who would later become his second wife and their daughter was born while the couple were in London.

In 1958, he was hired as a professor at Brandeis University in the United States, where he lived and worked for two years.

After his return to France in 1960 he worked as a literary editor and translator at

and spent his time primarily in Paris and in Brittany, although after his second wife died in 1965, Thomas began to live mostly in Brittany. He moved to a rest home in Paris in 1991 after his health failed and died there in 1993.

Works

Novels (partial list)

• The Coal Bucket (1940)
• The Tutor (1942)
• Living Together (1945)
• The Deserters (1951)
• London Night (1956)
• John Perkins (1960)
• The Last Year"(1960)
• The Promontory (1961)
• Perjury (1964)
• The Relic (1969)

Short story collections (partial list)

• The Target (1955)
• The Story of Pierrot and Several Others (1960)

Poetry

• Poetry (1970)

Translations

• He translated Ernst Jünger's On the Marble Cliffs (1939) to French

References

• Patrice Bougon and Marc Dambre ed. : Henri Thomas. L'écriture du secret, Champ Vallon, France, 2007, 288 p.

External links

Société des lecteurs de Henri Thomas