26 September 2014

Cimetière de Montrouge #8: Henri Queffélec

'Henri Queffélec
1910–1992'

The son of Yann Queffélec who won the Goncourt in 1985 with Les Noces barbares, Henri was born in Brest and is seen as a great French writer of sea novels. He wrote over eighty books, many inspired by his native Brittany and the sea. His  Un recteur de l'Île de Sein was filmed as Dieu a besoin des hommes.

No comments: