Claude Mourthé

Claude Mourthé (6 March 1932 – 13 March 2024) was a French writer, translator and film director.[1]

Claude Mourthé
Born(1932-03-06)6 March 1932
Cazères, France
Died13 March 2024(2024-03-13) (aged 92)
Agen, France
NationalityFrench
EducationUniversity of Toulouse
Occupation(s)Writer
Film director

Biography

Born in Cazères on 6 March 1932, Mourthé earned a degree in modern literature from the University of Toulouse. He worked as a radio director from 1959 to 1993 and as a television director for TF1 from 1974 to 1989.[2][3] He was also a producer for France Culture. He was a critic for Le Magazine Littéraire and Le Figaro Magazine.

Mourthé was the author of a dozen books, including Soudain l'éternité, which won him the Prix Chateaubriand et du rayonnement français.[4] He received the Prix Guillaume Apollinaire in 1999 for his collection Dit plus bas.

Claude Mourthé died in Agen on 13 March 2024, at the age of 92.[5]

Works

Novels
  • La Caméra (1970)
  • Amour noir (1971)
  • Lettre à un mort (1971)
  • L'enlèvement (1972)
  • Un pas dans la forêt (1976)
  • Le Temps des fugues (1980)
  • L'Amour parfait (1986)
  • Le printemps fou (1992)
  • Une mort de théâtre (1994)
  • Paysage changeant (1996)
  • La Perspective amoureuse (1996)
  • Un état de mélancolie (1997)
  • Soudain, l'éternité (1998)

Poetry
  • Nuit demeure (1994)
  • Dit plus bas (1999)
  • Voici l'homme (2000)
  • Engrammes (2002)
  • Opus incertain (2018)

Essays
  • Giono l'Italien (1995)
  • Shakespeare (2006)
  • Shakespeare, scènes célèbres (2008)
  • Shakespeare, Comme il vous plaira (2016)

Decorations

References
  1. "Mourthé, Claude (1932-2024)". Bibliothèque national de France (in French).
  2. Mourthé, Claude (17 April 2016). ""La Tragédie de Macbeth" de Shakespeare, adaptation de Claude Mourthé". France Culture (in French). Retrieved 17 March 2024.
  3. "En 1979, Claude Mourthé tournait ici avec Patrick Bruel". La Dépêche du Midi (in French). Auvillar. 25 December 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
  4. "C. Mourthé, Shakespeare (Folio-Biographies)". Fabula (in French).
  5. "Carnet noir : l'hommage gersois au journaliste et écrivain Claude Mourthé". La Dépêche du Midi (in French). 16 March 2024. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
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