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Marcel Thiry

Belgian poet

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Marcel Thiry (13 March 1897 – 5 September 1977) was a French-speaking Belgian poet. During World War I, he and his brother Oscar served in the Belgian Expeditionary Corps in Russia.

He was awarded the Prix Valery Larbaud in 1976 for Toi qui pâlis au nom de Vancouver, a book of poems reminiscent of Blaise Cendrars and Guillaume Apollinaire. He is the father of virologist Lise Thiry.

Toi qui pâlis au nom de Vancouver (1924), Prix Valery Larbaud

Statue de la fatigue Prix triennal de poésie 1934

La Mer de la Tranquillité (1938)

Usine à penser des choses tristes (1957)

Saison cinq et quatre proses (1969)

Juste ou la Quête d'Hélène (1953)

Nouvelles du Grand Possible (1960)

Voir grand (1921), essai politique

Hitler n'est pas jeune (1940), pamphlet

La Belgique pendant la guerre (1947)

Lettre aux jeunes Wallons (1960), essai politique

Le Poème et la langue (1967), essai littéraire

France, Peter (Ed.) (1995). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-866125-8.

(in French) Marcel Thiry on wallonie-en-ligne.net

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