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Roger Vrigny (French pronunciation: [ʁɔʒe vʁiɲi]; 19 May 1920, Paris – 16 August 1997, Lille) was a 20th-century French writer.

Biography

A professor, Roger Vrigny turned to theatre in 1950 by founding a small theatre company, "La Compagnie du Miroir", before devoting himself to literature with his first novel, Arban, in 1954. He began his literary career under the mentorship of the writer and poet Robert Mallet. He was also a radio broadcaster, hosting the program Belles Lettres on the ORTF in 1955, then Matinée littéraire on France Culture from 1966. For thirty years, he hosted various literary programs, the last of which was "Lettres Ouvertes", broadcast every Wednesday on France Culture. He was a member of the jury of the Prix Renaudot. Vrigny continued working as a novelist, essayist and publisher, and his work was marked by discretion and high standards.

In 1963, he won the Prix Femina for La Nuit de Mougins, and in 1989 he received the Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française for his lifetime achievement.

His final published work, Instants dérobés (Éditions Gallimard, 1996), was composed of extracts from the diary he kept between 1972 and 1991.

He died aged 77. He is buried in Picardy, in his adopted village of Wiry-au-Mont.

Works

1954: Arban, Gallimard

1956: Lauréna, Gallimard

1958: Barbégal, Gallimard

1963: La Nuit de Mougins, Prix Femina

1968: Fin de journée, Gallimard

1972: La vie brève, Gallimard

1974: Pourquoi cette joie ?, Gallimard

1979: Un ange passe, Gallimard

1983: Sentiments distingués, Éditions Grasset, Prix Dumas-Millier of the Académie française

1985: Accident de parcours, followed by Amour and Une tache sur la vitre, Gallimard

1988: Le bonhomme d'Ampère, Gallimard

1989: Sang Indien et autres nouvelles (Roger Vrigny wrote the preface of this collection) (La Découverte / Le Monde) Prix du jeune écrivain 1989.

1990: Les Cœurs sensibles, Gallimard

1990: Le besoin d'écrire, Grasset

1990: La Confession de Rousseau (theatre), Editions Actes Sud-Papiers

1994: Le Garçon d’orage, Gallimard

1996: Instants dérobés, Gallimard

1998: Ciel de lit et autres nouvelles, Mercure de France, collective work including texts by Roger Vrigny, Olivier Balazuc, François-Xavier Molia, Rodolfo Pinto...

Adaptations

1983: La Métamorphose by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe after Franz Kafka

1989: L'Or du diable

1996: Roger Vrigny's novel Le Garçon d’orage was adapted for television by Jérôme Foulon with

Daniel Russo as Marcellin

Vincent Lecœur as Willie

Véronique Silver as Germaine

François Berléand as Le Boîteux

Script

1999: Je suis vivante et je vous aime by Roger Kahane