Colette Yver
Colette Yver | |
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![]() Colette Yver c. 1920 | |
Born | Antoinette de Bergevin 28 July 1874 Segré (Maine-et-Loire) |
Died | 17 March 1953(1953-03-17) (aged 78) Rouen |
Occupation | Writer |
Colette Yver (28 July 1874 – 17 March 1953) was a French Roman Catholic writer from Normandy, the winner of the 1907 Prix Femina for her work Princesses de science.
Biography
The daughter of a civil servant transferred to Rouen shortly after her birth, Colette Yver was a prolific writer who began publishing, from the age of eighteen, novels for the "Bibliothèque morale de la jeunesse" at Mégard [fr] in Rouen. She would publish about a book (novels, essays, or hagiographies) a year for the next fifty years of her life. Her works are representative of the anti-feminist fiction which abounded under the Third Republic. Intended for a female audience, these types of novels depicted emancipated women confronted with multiple misfortunes that they would not have suffered had they chosen life at home.
In 1907, she won the prix Femina (then called prix Vie Heureuse, présided by Jeanne Lapauze) for Princesses de science, A book referring to the difficulties encountered by women in reconciling family and scientific careers. In 1913 she entered the jury of this award, of which she was long the dean, until 1951. In 1917, she was admitted to the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen.
Her sister Marguerite (1869-1961), wife of Dr. Guillaume, a young widow with two children in 1896, a professor of French until an advanced age in free education, gave Le Journal de Rouen [fr] tales for children under the pseudonym "Hélène Avril".
She is buried at cimetière monumental de Rouen next to her brother, painter Édouard de Bergevin.
She was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur (decree 11 August 1931).
Essays, novels
- 1907: Princesses de science, Calmann-Lévy, (crowned by the Prix Vie Heureuse, previous name of the Prix Femina)
- 1911: Le Métier de Roi, Calmann-Lévy
- 1916: Comment s'en vont les Reines, Calmann-Lévy,
- 1919: Les cousins riches
- 1920: Dans le jardin du féminisme
- 1909: Les Dames du Palais
- 1926: Aujourd'hui...
- 1928: La Bergerie
- 1908: Les Cervelines, Calmann-lévy
- 1929: Femmes d'aujourd'hui
- 1931: Vincent ou La Solitude
- 1932: Le Vote des femmes
- 1912: Un coin du voile
- 1913: Les sables mouvants Archived 2016-12-21 at the Wayback Machine in Revue des Deux mondes
- 1928: Le mystère des béatitudes
- 1917: Mirabelle de Pampelune
- 1928: Le festin des autres
- 1928: L'homme et le dieu
- 1928: Vous serez comme des dieux
- 1928: Haudequin de Lyon
Bibliography
- Léon Abensour, Histoire générale du féminisme des origines à nos jours, Delagrave, Paris, 1921; 1979 ISBN 2050001169.
- Michel Manson, Colette Yver, jeune auteure pour la jeunesse de 1892 à 1900, in "Cahiers Robinsons", n° 5, 2004, Juvenilia (écritures précoces), issue directed by Guillemette Tison, p. 61-77.
- Rebecca Rogers and Françoise Thébaud, La fabrique des filles. L'éducation des filles de Jules Ferry à la pilule, Paris, Éditions Textuel, 2010
External links
- Colette Yvert on Babelio
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- 1904 Myriam Harry
- 1905 Romain Rolland
- 1906 André Corthis
- 1907 Colette Yver
- 1908 Édouard Estaunié
- 1909 Edmond Jaloux
- 1910 Marguerite Audoux
- 1911 Louis de Robert
- 1912 Jacques Morel
- 1913 Camille Marbo
- 1914
- 1915
- 1916
- 1917 Maurice Larrouy
- 1918 Henri Bachelin
- 1919 Roland Dorgelès
- 1920 Edmond Gojon
- 1921 Raymond Escholier
- 1922 Jacques de Lacretelle
- 1923 Jeanne Galzy
- 1924 Charles Derennes
- 1925 Joseph Delteil
- 1926 Charles Silvestre
- 1927 Marie Le Franc
- 1928 Dominique Dunois
- 1929 Georges Bernanos
- 1930 Marc Chadourne
- 1931 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- 1932 Ramon Fernandez [fr]
- 1933 Geneviève Fauconnier
- 1934 Robert Francis
- 1935 Claude Silve
- 1936 Louise Hervieu
- 1937 Raymonde Vincent
- 1938 Félix de Chazournes
- 1939 Paul Vialar
- 1940
- 1941
- 1942
- 1943
- 1944 Éditions de Minuit (publisher)
- 1945 Anne-Marie Monnet
- 1946 Michel Robida
- 1947 Gabrielle Roy
- 1948 Emmanuel Roblès
- 1949 Maria Le Hardouin
- 1950 Serge Groussard
- 1951 Anne de Tourville
- 1952 Dominique Rolin
- 1953 Zoé Oldenbourg
- 1954 Gabriel Veraldi
- 1955 André Dhôtel
- 1956 François-Régis Bastide
- 1957 Christian Mégret
- 1958 Françoise Mallet-Joris
- 1959 Bernard Privat
- 1960 Louise Bellocq
- 1961 Henri Thomas
- 1962 Yves Berger
- 1963 Roger Vrigny
- 1964 Jean Blanzat
- 1965 Robert Pinget
- 1966 Irène Monesi
- 1967 Claire Etcherelli
- 1968 Marguerite Yourcenar
- 1969 Jorge Semprún
- 1970 François Nourissier
- 1971 Angelo Rinaldi
- 1972 Roger Grenier
- 1973 Michel Dard
- 1974 René-Victor Pilhes
- 1975 Claude Faraggi
- 1976 Marie-Louise Haumont
- 1977 Régis Debray
- 1978 François Sonkin
- 1979 Pierre Moinot
- 1980 Jocelyne François
- 1981 Catherine Hermary-Vieille
- 1982 Anne Hébert
- 1983 Florence Delay
- 1984 Bertrand Visage
- 1985 Hector Bianciotti
- 1986 René Belletto
- 1987 Alain Absire
- 1988 Alexandre Jardin
- 1989 Sylvie Germain
- 1990 Pierrette Fleutiaux
- 1991 Paula Jacques
- 1992 Anne-Marie Garat
- 1993 Marc Lambron
- 1994 Olivier Rolin
- 1995 Emmanuel Carrère
- 1996 Geneviève Brisac
- 1997 Dominique Noguez
- 1998 François Cheng
- 1999 Maryline Desbiolles
- 2000 Camille Laurens
- 2001 Marie NDiaye
- 2002 Chantal Thomas
- 2003 Dai Sijie
- 2004 Jean-Paul Dubois
- 2005 Régis Jauffret
- 2006 Nancy Huston
- 2007 Éric Fottorino
- 2007 Gwenaëlle Aubry
- 2008 Jean-Louis Fournier
- 2010 Patrick Lapeyre
- 2011 Simon Liberati
- 2012 Patrick Deville
- 2013 Léonora Miano
- 2014 Yanick Lahens
- 2015 Christophe Boltanski
- 2016 Marcus Malte
- 2017 Philippe Jaenada
- 2018 Philippe Lançon
- 2019 Sylvain Prudhomme
- 2020 Serge Joncour
- 2021 Clara Dupont-Monod
- 2022 Claudie Hunzinger [fr]
- 2023 Neige Sinno