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Raoul Parme(1904 -) was an author of Maltese decent. He spent 52 years of his life in Cairo, Egypt before leaving in 1956 to live in Europe.

Life
On June 14 1904, Parme was born in the Egyptian city Port-Said. The first school he attended was German school of the Sisters of Saint Charles-Borromee then he studied with the Jesuit fathers. He then completed his studies at Lycée Français d'Alexandrie. During his masters education, Parme was greatly encouraged towards literature by a drawing teacher, Charles Brun (better known by his pen name: Raoul Toscan). Parme's began writing at an early age and by the age of 14 he had published verses in local magazines such as Les Tablettes, L'Eclair, and L'Orient. Between 1927 and 1954, Parme founded and directed several small literary reviews such as L'Orient littéraire in 1927, in collaboration with J. Moscatelli; and Chrysis in 1930. In 1956 there were The Almanac of Letters and Arts in Egypt and Versions, a notebook which contained poems in all languages, translated into French. In 1935, R. Parme published an anthology of German poetry and later, in 1946, a verse translation of Fifteen Sonnets by Petrarch which was considered to be his most complete work. Parme taught at the English colleges in Cairo while also running a publishing house which published works by Moscatelli, Albert Staraselski and Robert Blum. In 1956, Parme moved to Italy where he spent some time. He then moved again to London where he settled for 10 years, after which he went back to Italy and continued his literary work in the city of Milan.

The Salamander Society
Poets in Cairo who were active during the war years (mid 1900s) were made up of two groups: the Personal Landscape group— which leaned toward the study and reading of literature — and the Salamander Society, which was founded by Keith Bullen and John Cromer and sought "to memorialize the soldier as amateur poet and oral historian". Raoul Parme contributed in the Salamander Society. He taught under bullen at the Gezira Preparatory School.

Works

 * La prière dansée : poèmes
 * Le Rameau d'or : poèmes
 * Première cueillette, poèmes
 * Tribut à Diotime : poèmes et transpositions
 * Poëmes d'Angleterre
 * Poésie et traduction
 * Maître Urian : poëme dramatique