Dominique Rolin

Dominique Rolin (22 May 1913 – 15 May 2012) was a Belgian novelist.

Dominique Rolin was a granddaughter of Léon Cladel. 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 centered on two men, her first husband, a sculptor, and avant-garde writer and theorist Philippe Sollers with whom, in spite of an age gap, she had a half-century secret relationship. She was a Femina Prize winner and a member of the Belgian Royal Academy.

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.