Andrée Chedid 1920 - 2011

vente anticipée : Oblitération 1er jour à Paris au carré d'Encre le 20 et 21 mars 2020
Vente générale : 23 mars 2020
Retrait de la vente : 31 mars 2021
Valeur faciale : 21.00 €
Couleur : bleu, blanc et gris
Mode d'impression : Héliogravure
Quantite émis : 46.667 feuilles
Catalogue Yvert et Tellier : Feuille N° F1

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Andrée Chedid

Poet, novelist, playwright and lyricist, Andrée Chedid has tirelessly questioned the human condition. His work reflects the urgency of celebrating the profound value of life, beyond generational, religious, cultural, geographical differences... Born in Cairo, Lebanese of Lebanese origin, Andrée Chedid moved to Paris in 1946. This French-language lover devoted herself to poetry for about 15 years before exploring other literary genres: novels – Le Sixième Jour, L'Autre, both adapted to the cinema, The Multiple Child...
From her childhood in Egypt, country whose tolerance and humour she praised, from her years in Lebanon she will keep an eastern sensibility devoid of nostalgia. And if she often pays tribute to her roots, she is committed in her poems as in her novels to build bridges between the past and the present, between the Middle East and the West. With a fluid and luminous writing, both sober and lyrical, Andrée Chedid often evolves her characters in a dark universe, where good and evil clash. Goncourt prize for the short story in 1979 and Goncourt poetry in 2002, the one for whom writing a poem was «take life at hand» left a considerable work, internationally recognized, driven by a conviction: the need for love, love of life, love of humanity
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