Emmanuel Roblès

Emmanuel Roblès (4 May 1914 in Oran, French Algeria – 22 February 1995 in Boulogne, Hauts-de-Seine) was a French author and playwright. He was elected a member of the Académie Goncourt in 1973. He was one of many influential "pied-noir" of his time. The literary award Prix Emmanuel Roblès has been established in his honour in 1990.

Selected bibliography

 * La Vallée du paradis (1940)
 * Travail d'homme (1942)
 * La Marie des quatres vents (1942), short story
 * Nuits sur le monde (1944), short stories
 * L'Action (1946)
 * Les Hauteurs de la ville (1948), winner of the Prix Femina
 * Montserrat (1948), play
 * La Mort en face (1951), short stories
 * Cela s'appelle l'aurore (1952)
 * Federica (1954)
 * Les Couteaux (1956), novel about Mexico
 * L'Homme d'Avril (1959), short stories (title story about Japan)
 * Le Vésuve (1961)
 * Jeunes saisons (1961), autobiography
 * La Remontée du fleuve (1962)
 * La Croisière (1968)
 * Un Printemps d'Italie (1970)
 * L'Ombre et la rive (1972), short stories
 * Saison violente (1974)
 * Un Amour sans fin (1976)
 * Les Sirènes (1977)
 * L'Arbre invisible (1979)
 * Venise en hiver (1981)
 * La chasse à la licorne (1985)
 * Norma, ou, L'Exil infini (1988)
 * Albert Camus et la trêve civile (1988), criticism
 * Les Rives du fleuve bleu (1990), short stories
 * Cristal des jours (1990), poetry
 * L'Herbe des ruines (1992)
 * Erica (1994), short stories
 * Camus, frère de soleil (1995), biography