Vialatte, Alexandre

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Vialatte, Alexandre
Other forms of name
Vialatte, Alexandre, 1901-1971
Vialatti, A
Date of birth
1901-04-22
Date of death
1971-05-03
Place of birth
Magnac-Laval, France
Place of death
Paris (France)
Associated country
France
Occupation
Authors
Critics
Novelists
Translators
Associated Language
fre
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 110260882
Wikidata: Q2834119
Library of congress: n 81010384
Sources of Information
  • La paix des jardins, c1990:t.p. (Alexandre Vialatte) p. 4 of cover (b. in 1901)
  • Le général Lafayette, 1935.
  • Wikipedia, French version, viewed May 17, 2017(Alexandre Vialatte; French writer, literary critic and translator; in Germany in 1922 as civil translator for military authorities, again in 1924-1925 in military service; became interested in translation, translating first Kafka's Le Château [The Castle], continued translating German authors' works until 1954; his first novel, Battling le ténébreux, was published in 1928; French teacher 1937-1939 at Franco-Egyptian lycée in Heliopolis near Cairo; in 1945 he was again in Germany, at Bergen-Belsen where he documented war crimes trials; returned to France for good in early 1947; Les fruits du Congo [1951] was his last novel)
  • Wikipédia, via WWW, November 9, 2010:(Alexandre Vialatte, né le 22 avril 1901 à Magnac-Laval (Haute-Vienne) et mort le 3 mai 1971 à Paris)
  • LCN: 1900-1971