Roger Bordier

Roger Bordier (5 March 1923 – June 2015) was a French writer, winner of the 1961 Prix Renaudot.

Biography

Bordier was born in Blois. He began working as a journalist in Blois and Paris. He then became an art critic for Art today. He published his first collection of poems in Seghers. He penned short stories. His first novel was The Fifth Season, published by Calmann-Levy. His third novel, The Corn, won the Prix Renaudot in 1961. He then published A Golden Age, which was adapted for television by Fernand Marzelle and continued publishing essays on criticism.

Roger Bordier was a professor at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, where he taught history of modern art and sociology of contemporary aesthetics.

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1923 births

2015 deaths

Writers from Blois

French journalists

20th-century French poets

Academic staff of Paris Sciences et Lettres University

French art critics

20th-century French novelists

21st-century French novelists

20th-century French male writers

Prix Renaudot winners

21st-century French poets

21st-century French male writers

French male essayists

French male poets

French male novelists

French male short story writers

20th-century French short story writers

21st-century French short story writers

20th-century French essayists

21st-century French essayists