Herve bazin biography of alberta

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON HERVÉ BAZIN

Hervé Bazin – full name Jean-Pierre Hervé Bazin- (his publishers, Grasset, required him to shorten his name to “Hervé Bazin”),   was born in Angers in April 1911 and died in Angers at the age 84, in February 1996

The literary works of Hervé Bazin
From his student days in his twenties and through to his late thirties, poetry was Bazin’s main interest.  He published two collections of poems.  For the first collection, “Jour” (1947), he was awarded the “Prix Apollinaire”.  However, the leading French poet, Paul Valéry, told him with characteristic bluntness that he was not gifted for poetry and to try writing prose instead.

He began to work feverishly to produce his new prose writings and his first novel, “Vipère au Poing”, was accepted for publication in 1948.

At this time, in post-war France, the contempor