Suzanne Renaud
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Suzanne Renaud (born 18891889 in literature
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in Lyon
Lyon
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, France
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; died 1964
1964 in literature
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, in Havlíčkův Brod) was a French poet and translator. She moved from her native Lyon to Grenoble in 1894, and during the war she worked at the military infirmary there. In 1926 she married the Czech poet Bohuslav Reynek
Bohuslav Reynek
Bohuslav Reynek was one of the most important Bohemian poets, writers, painters and translators of the 20th century.-Education and personal life:...
in Grenoble, who had come to seek her permission to translate her poetry in 1923. For the next ten years they divided their time between France and Czechoslovakia, settling in the latter country definitively in 1936. She translated her husband's works into French, as he did for her. In the years 1947-1959 she corresponded with the French writer Henri Pourrat
Henri Pourrat
Henry Pourrat was a French writer and anthropologist who collected the oral literature of the Auvergne.-Biography :...
. She also translated the Czech poets Vladimír Holan
Vladimír Holan
Vladimír Holan was a Czech poet famous for employing obscure language, dark topics and pessimist views in his poems. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in the late 1960s. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia....
and František Halas
František Halas
František Halas was one of the most significant Czech lyric poets of the 20th century, an essayist, and a translator.- Life :...
into French.
Works
- Ta vie est là (Saint-Félicien-en-Vivarais: éditions du Pigeonnier, 1922)
- Ailes de cendre (Pardubice: Vokolek, 1932), with illustrations by Bohuslav Reynek
- Křídla z popele (Pardubice: Vokolek, 1935), translation of Ailes de cendre by Reynek
- Victimae laudes (Pardubice: Vokolek, 1938), poetry collection
- Dveře v přítmí (Kroměříž: Magnificat, 1946), translation by Reynek
- Chvála oběti poems translated into Czech by Bohuslav Reynek (Brno: Atlantis, 1948)
- Romarin ou Annette et Jean - Ballades et poésies populaires tchèques et moraves Renaud's translation of Czech and Moravian ballads and poetry