Guy Tirolien

{{Infobox writer | name = Guy Tirolien | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1917|2|13}} | birth_place = [[Pointe-à-Pitre]], Guadeloupe | death_date = {{Death date and age|1988|3|8|1917|2|13}} | death_place = [[Marie-Galante]], Guadeloupe | occupation = Poet, colonial administrator, international civil servant | nationality = French (Guadeloupean) | notableworks = ''Prière d'un petit enfant nègre'', ''Balles d'or'', ''Feuilles vivantes au matin'' | movement = [[Négritude]] | relatives = Malika Tirolien (granddaughter) }}

'''Guy Tirolien''' ({{IPA|fr|ɡi tiʁɔljɛ̃}}; February 13, 1917 – March 8, 1988) was a [[Guadeloupe]]an poet. He was born in [[Point-à-Pitre]] and died at the age of 71 in [[Marie-Galante]].

== Biography == Guy Tirolien was born in [[Point-à-Pitre]], [[Guadelope]] to Furcie Tirolen and Léontine Alméda Colonneau. He was admitted to the [[Lycée Louis-le-Grand]] in [[Paris]], where he met [[Aimé Césaire]], [[Léopold Sédar Senghor]] and [[Léon-Gontran Damas]], with whom he took part in the creation of the [[Négritude]] ideological movement.<ref>{{cite web |title=Guy Tirolien |url=https://memoire-esclavage.org/biographies/guy-tirolien |website=Fondation pour la Mémoire de l'Esclavage |language=fr |access-date=2025-07-01}}</ref> He was also a [[Colonialism in Africa|colonial]] administrator in [[Cameroon]] and [[Mali]], where he met several figures of the [[Harlem Renaissance]]. However, he was taken prisoner during [[World War II]]. Afterwards, he worked as an international civil servant, representing the [[UN]], notably in [[Mali]] and [[Gabon]]. He is the grandfather of singer-songwriter [[Malika Tirolien]].

== Work == Tirolien is known as the author of "''Prière d'un petit enfant nègre''" (1943), a poem included in his book "Balles d'or" published by [[Présence Africaine]]. The poem is about a black child who does not want to go to the white school. He also wrote "Feuilles vivantes au matin" under the same publisher.

== Selected works == * ''Balles d'or'', published by Présence Africaine in 1961 and 1995<ref>{{cite book |title=Balles d'or: poèmes |author=Guy Tirolien |publisher=Présence africaine |year=1961 |isbn=2708700871 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jcXqrGy_nFs |language=fr |access-date=2025-07-01}}</ref> * ''Feuilles vivantes au matin'', published by Présence Africaine in 1977<ref>{{cite book |title=Feuilles vivantes au matin: nouvelles |author=Guy Tirolien |publisher=Présence africaine |year=1977 |isbn=9782708703407 |language=fr }}</ref> * ''De Marie-Galante à une poétique afro-antillaise'', published by L'Harmattan, collected by Monde Caraïbe<ref>{{cite book |title=Guy Tirolien: de Marie-Galante à une poétique afro-antillaise |author=Guy Tirolien, Michel Tétu |editor=Michel Tétu |publisher=Éditions Caribéennes |year=1990 |isbn=9782876790629 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lwdWpoxlh-IC |language=fr |access-date=2025-07-01}}</ref> *''l'homme et l'œuvre'', published by Présence Africaine in 1991<ref>{{cite book |title=Guy Tirolien: l'homme et l'œuvre |author=Willy Alante-Lima, Guy Tirolien |publisher=Présence africaine |year=1991 |isbn=9782708705562 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cv9cAAAAIAAJ |language=fr |access-date=2025-07-01}}</ref>

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