Roger Foulon

{{Short description|Belgian writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{More citations needed|date=September 2010}} {{Infobox person | name = Roger Foulon | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1923|8|3}} | birth_place = Thuin, Belgium | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2008|2|23|1923|8|3}} | death_place = Thuin, Belgium | other_names = | known_for = | occupation = writer }}

'''Roger Foulon''' (3 August 1923 – 23 February 2008) was a Belgian writer in French.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.servicedulivre.be/fiches/f/foulon.htm |title=Foulon : Roger Foulon : Service du Livre Luxembourgeois |access-date=17 April 2010 |archive-date=21 June 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080621044838/http://www.servicedulivre.be/fiches/f/foulon.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

He was the author of more than 120 works. He was the president of the {{Ill|Association of Belgian Writers in the French Language|fr|Association des écrivains belges de langue française}}, from 1973 to 1994. From 1999 until his death he was a member of Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.arllfb.be/composition/membres/foulon.html|title = Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique : Roger Foulon}}</ref> He was born and died in Thuin.

== Works == * ''L'espérance abolie'', 1976. * ''Un été dans la Fagne'', Brussels, 1980. {{Ill|Prix George Garnir|fr}}. * ''Vipères'', Brussels, 1981. * ''Barrages'', Brussels, 1982. * ''Déluge'', Brussels, 1984. * ''Naissance du monde'', 1986. * ''Les tridents de la colère'', 1991. * ''L'homme à la tête étoilée'', 1995.

==Awards== *Prix George Garnir, 1980.

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==External links== *[http://www.servicedulivre.be/fiches/f/foulon.htm "Roger Foulon Poète, nouvelliste, conteur, romancier..."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080621044838/http://www.servicedulivre.be/fiches/f/foulon.htm |date=21 June 2008 }} {{in lang|fr}}

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