Dominique Rolin

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'''Dominique Rolin''' ({{IPA|fr|dɔminik ʁɔlɛ̃}}; 22 May 1913 – 15 May 2012) was a Belgian novelist.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2012/05/15/dominique-rolin-ecrivaine-de-l-infini-amoureux-est-morte_1701179_3382.html |title=Dominique Rolin, écrivaine de l'infini amoureux, est morte |newspaper=Le Monde.fr |publisher=Lemonde.fr |date= 15 May 2012|accessdate=2013-01-03}}</ref>

Dominique Rolin was a granddaughter of Léon Cladel.<ref>Henri Peyre, ''French Novelists of Today'', New York: Oxford University Press, 1967, p.438</ref> Her career was launched by Jean Cocteau and Jean Paulhan during the Second World War. Over some sixty years she developed a unique, feminist voice in French novel-writing, blending seamlessly autobiography and fiction, and centred on two men, her first husband, a sculptor, and avant-garde writer and theorist Philippe Sollers with whom she had a half-century secret relationship. He appeared in her novels as "Jim". She was a Femina Prize winner and a member of the Belgian Royal Academy of French Literature where she succeded Marguerite Yourcenar.

She was a Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur.

==Works== * ''Repas de famille'' (1932), novella * ''Les Pieds d’argile'' (1935), novel * ''La Peur'' (1936), novella * ''Marais'' (1942), * ''Anne la bien-aimée'' (1944), * ''Le Souffle'' (1952), Prix Femina * ''Les Quatre coins'' (1954) * ''Artémis'' (1958) * ''Le Lit'' (1960) * ''Maintenant'' (1967) * ''Le Corps'' (1969) * ''Les Éclairs'' (1971) * ''Lettre au vieil homme'' (1973) * ''L’Enragé'' (1978) * ''L’Infini chez soi'' (1980) * ''L’Enfant-roi'' (1986) * ''Trente ans d’amour fou'' (1988) * ''Vingt chambres d’hôtel'' (1990) * ''L’Accoudoir'' (1996) * ''La Rénovation'' (1998) * ''Journal amoureux'' (2000), novel * ''Le Futur immédiat'' (2001), novel * ''Plaisirs'' (2001), * ''Lettre à Lise'' (2003)

==Awards== * Prix Femina, (1952), for ''Le Souffle''. * Franz Hellens prijs, (1978), for ''L'Enragé''. * Prix Kléber Haedens, (1980), for ''L’Infini chez soi''. * Prix Roland Jouvenel of the Académie française, (1990), for ''Vingt chambres d’hôtel''. * Prix Thyde Monnier, (1991), entire œuvre. * Grand prix national des Lettres, (2001), entire oeuvre.

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