# 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](/source/L%C3%A9on_Cladel).<ref>Henri Peyre, ''French Novelists of Today'', New York: Oxford University Press, 1967, p.438</ref> Her career was launched by [Jean Cocteau](/source/Jean_Cocteau) and [Jean Paulhan](/source/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](/source/Philippe_Sollers) with whom she had a half-century secret relationship. He appeared in her novels as "Jim". She was a [Femina Prize](/source/Femina_Prize) winner and a member of the Belgian Royal Academy of French Literature where she succeded [Marguerite Yourcenar](/source/Marguerite_Yourcenar).

She was a Commandeur de la [Légion d'Honneur](/source/L%C3%A9gion_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](/source/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](/source/Le_Futur_imm%C3%A9diat)'' (2001), novel
* ''Plaisirs'' (2001),
* ''Lettre à Lise'' (2003)

==Awards==
* [Prix Femina](/source/Prix_Femina), (1952), for ''Le Souffle''.
* [Franz Hellens](/source/Franz_Hellens) prijs, (1978), for ''L'Enragé''.
* Prix Kléber Haedens, (1980), for ''L’Infini chez soi''.
* Prix Roland Jouvenel of the [Académie française](/source/Acad%C3%A9mie_fran%C3%A7aise), (1990), for ''Vingt chambres d’hôtel''.
* Prix Thyde Monnier, (1991), entire [œuvre](/source/Work_of_art).
* [Grand prix national des Lettres](/source/Grand_prix_national_des_Lettres), (2001), entire oeuvre.

== References ==
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