{{Short description|French novelist (1920–2011)}} {{infobox person | name = Jean Dutourd | birth_date = {{birth date|1920|01|14|df=yes}} | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = {{death date and age|2011|01|17|1920|01|14|df=yes}} | death_place = Paris, France | education = Lycée Janson-de-Sailly | alma_mater = University of Paris | occupation = Writer | known_for = Member of the Académie française }}
'''Jean Gwenaël Dutourd''' ({{IPA|fr|dytuʁ|lang}}; 14 January 1920{{spaced ndash}}17 January 2011)<ref>{{cite web|title=Mort de l'écrivain Jean Dutourd |url=http://www.lepost.fr/article/2011/01/18/2374655_mort-le-l-ecrivain-jean-dutourd.html |publisher=lepost.fr |date=18 Jan 2011 |accessdate=2011-01-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110120192356/http://www.lepost.fr/article/2011/01/18/2374655_mort-le-l-ecrivain-jean-dutourd.html |archivedate=2011-01-20 }}</ref> was a French novelist.
==Biography== [[File:Tombe Jean Dutourd, Cimetière du Montparnasse.jpg|thumb|Dutourd's gravestone in Montparnasse Cemetery]] Dutourd was born in Paris. His mother died when he was seven years old. At the age of twenty, he was taken prisoner fifteen days after Germany's invasion of France in World War II. He escaped six weeks later and returned to Paris where he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He entered the Resistance and was again arrested in early 1944. He escaped and took part in the Liberation of Paris. He was a candidate for the Democratic Union of Labour (UDT) in the legislative elections of 1967.
His first work, ''Le Complexe de César'', appeared in 1946 and received the Prix Stendhal.
On July 14, 1978, a bomb destroyed his apartment, planted by people who disliked his writing style. Parisian intellectuals were somewhat dismayed, as they had not generally caused such a stir with their own writings. This incident, however, had a happy consequence: Jean Dutourd was elected to the Académie française, to the seat of Jacques Rueff, on November 30 of the same year (seat 31)retrieved 18/1/2026, https://web.archive.org/web/20110120192356/http://www.lepost.fr/article/2011/01/18/2374655_mort-le-l-ecrivain-jean-dutourd.html.
In 1997 he was elected as a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Department of Language and Literature.
Dutourd died in Paris on 17 January 2011, at the age of 91.
==Bibliography==
*1946 ''Le Complexe de César'' (Gallimard) *1947 ''Le Déjeuner du lundi'' (Gallimard) *1947 ''Galère'' (Éd. des Granges-Vieilles) *1948 ''L’Arbre'' (Gallimard) *1950 ''Une tête de chien'' (Gallimard) [In English: "A Dog's Head: A Novel" tr. Robin Chancellor (1951) ({{ISBN|9780226174921}})] *1950 ''Le Petit Don Juan, traité de la séduction'' (Robert Laffont) *1952 ''Au bon beurre, scènes de la vie sous l'Occupation'' (Gallimard) [Two titles in English: "The Milky Way" tr. Robin Chancellor (Museum Press, 1955, UK); "The Best Butter" (Simon & Schuster, 1955, US)] *1955 ''Doucin'' (Gallimard) [In English: "Five A.M." tr. Robin Chancellor (Simon & Schuster, 1956)] *1956 ''Les Taxis de la Marne'' (Gallimard) [In English: "The Taxis of the Marne" tr. Harold King (Simon & Schuster, 1957)] *1958 ''Le Fond et la Forme, essai alphabétique sur la morale et sur le style'' (Gallimard) *1959 ''Les Dupes'' (Gallimard) *1959 ''L’Âme sensible'' (Gallimard) [In English: "The Man of Sensibility" tr. Robin Chancellor (Simon & Schuster, 1961)] *1960 ''Le Fond et la Forme, tome II'' (Gallimard) *1963 ''Rivarol, essai et choix de textes'' (Mercure de France) *1963 ''Les Horreurs de l’amour'' (Gallimard) [In English: "The Horrors of Love" tr. Robin Chancellor (Doubleday, 1967)] *1964 ''La Fin des Peaux-Rouges'' (Gallimard) [In English: "The Last of the Redskins" tr. Grace T. Mayes (Doubleday, 1965)] *1965 ''Le Demi-Solde'' (Gallimard) *1965 ''Le Fond et la Forme, tome III'' (Gallimard) *1967 ''Pluche ou l’Amour de l’art'' (Flammarion) [In English: "Pluche, or The Love of Art" tr. Robin Chancellor (Doubleday, 1970)] *1969 ''Petit Journal 1965-1966'' (Julliard) *1970 ''L’École des jocrisses'' (Flammarion) *1971 ''Le Crépuscule des loups'' (Flammarion) *1971 ''Le Paradoxe du critique'' (Flammarion) *1972 ''Le Printemps de la vie'' (Flammarion) [In English: "The Springtime of Life" tr. Denver and Helen Lindley (Doubleday, 1974)] *1972 ''Le Paradoxe du critique, suivi de Sept Saisons'' (Flammarion) *1973 ''Carnet d’un émigré'' (Flammarion) *1976 ''2024'' (Gallimard) *1977 ''Mascareigne'' (Julliard) *1977 ''Cinq ans chez les sauvages'' (Flammarion) *1978 ''Les Matinées de Chaillot'' (SPL) *1978 ''Les Choses comme elles sont'' (Stock) *1979 ''Œuvres complètes, tome I'' (Flammarion) *1980 ''Mémoires de Mary Watson'' (Flammarion) *1980 ''Le Bonheur et autres idées'' (Flammarion) *1981 ''Un ami qui vous veut du bien'' (Flammarion) *1982 ''De la France considérée comme une maladie'' (Flammarion ) *1983 ''Henri ou l’Éducation nationale'' (Flammarion) *1983 ''Le Socialisme à tête de linotte'' (Flammarion) *1984 ''Œuvres complètes, tome II'' (Flammarion) *1984 ''Le Septennat des vaches maigres'' (Flammarion) *1985 ''Le Mauvais Esprit, entretiens avec J.-É. Hallier'' (Olivier Orban) *1985 ''La Gauche la plus bête du monde'' (Flammarion) *1986 ''Conversation avec le Général'' (Michèle Trinckvel) *1986 ''Contre les dégoûts de la vie'' (Flammarion) *1986 ''Le Spectre de la rose'' (Flammarion) *1987 ''Le Séminaire de Bordeaux'' (Flammarion) *1989 ''Ça bouge dans le prêt à porter'' (Flammarion) *1990 ''Conversation avec le Général'' (Flammarion) *1990 ''Loin d’Édimbourg'' (Le Fallois) *1990 ''Les Pensées'' (Le Cherche-Midi) *1991 ''Portraits de femmes'' (Flammarion) *1992 ''Vers de circonstances'' (Le Cherche-Midi) *1993 ''L’Assassin'' (Flammarion) *1994 ''Domaine public'' (Flammarion) *1994 ''Le Vieil Homme et la France'' (Flammarion) *1995 ''Le Septième Jour, récits des temps bibliques'' (Flammarion ) *1996 ''Le Feld Maréchal von Bonaparte'' (Flammarion) *1996 ''Scènes de genre et tableaux d’époque'' (Guy Trédaniel) *1997 ''Scandale de la vertu'' (Le Fallois) *1997 ''Trilogie française (Le Séminaire de Bordeaux, Portraits de femmes, l'Assassin)'' (Flammarion) *1997 ''Journal des années de peste : 1986-1991'' (Plon) *1998 ''Grand chelem à cœur'' (Le Rocher) *1999 ''À la recherche du français perdu'' (Plon) *2000 ''Jeannot, mémoires d’un enfant'' (Plon) *2001 ''Le Siècle des Lumières éteintes'' (Plon) *2002 ''Dutouriana'' (Plon) *2004 ''Journal intime d'un mort'' (Plon) *2006 ''Les perles et les cochons'' (Plon) *2007 : Leporello (Plon) ({{ISBN|2259206050}}) *2008 : La grenade et le suppositoire (Plon) ({{ISBN|9782259208000}})
==Translations==
''L'Œil d'Apollon'', by G. K. Chesterton; ''Les Muses parlent'', by Truman Capote; and ''Le Vieil Homme et la Mer'', by Ernest Hemingway.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/index.html L'Académie française]
{{Académie française Seat 31}} {{Prix Interallié}} {{Authority control}}
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