Henry Bauchau is a Belgian

Belgium

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 psychoanalyst, and author of French language

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 prose and poetry.
In 1936, he became a trial lawyer in Brussels

Brussels

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He was a member of the Resistance in the Ardennes.
From 1945 to 1951 he worked in publishing. In 1946, he moved to Paris.
He was a friend of Albert Camus

Albert Camus

Albert Camus was a French author, journalist, and key philosopher of the 20th century. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was opposed to some tendencies of the Surrealist movement of André Breton.Camus was awarded the 1957...

, André Gide

André Gide

André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide...

, Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan

Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who made prominent contributions to psychoanalysis and philosophy, and has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud". Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan influenced France's...

, and Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...

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He married Mary Kozyrev; they had the son, actor Patrick Bauchau

Patrick Bauchau

Patrick Nicolas Jean Sixte Ghislain Bauchau is a Belgian actor.-Early life:Bauchau was born in Brussels, the son of Mary , a Russian-born school administrator and publisher, and Henry Bauchau, a school administrator, publisher, writer, and psychoanalyst who served as an officer in the Belgian...

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He moved to Gstaad

Gstaad

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, Switzerland.

Awards

• 1990 Royal Academy of Belgian Literature
• 2002 International Latin Union prize of Romance Language Literatures

Works

• Géologie (1958; "Geology"), 1958
• Gengis Khan, Mermod, 1960 (reprint Actes sud, 1989)
• La Machination (1969; "The Plot"), (play)
• Œdipe sur la route, Actes Sud, 1990, ISBN 9782868695109
• La Chine intérieure (1974; "Inner China") (poems)
• Poésie: 1950-1984, Actes Sud, 1986
• Le régiment noir, Éperonniers, 1987
• Diotime et les lions: récit, Actes Sud, 1991, ISBN 9782868696915
• L'écriture et la circonstance, Presses universitaires de Louvain, UCL, 1992
• Antigone: roman, Actes Sud, 1997, ISBN 9782742717248
• La déchirure, Editions Labor, 1998, ISBN 9782804013370
• Journal d'Antigone: 1989-1997, Actes Sud, 1999
• L'enfant bleu: roman, Actes sud, 2004, ISBN 9782742751396