Claude Mourthé Explained

Claude Mourthé
Birth Date:	1932 3, df=y
Birth Place:	Cazères, France
Death Place:	Agen, France
Nationality:	French
Occupation:	Writer Film director
Education:	University of Toulouse

Claude Mourthé (6 March 1932 – 13 March 2024) was a French writer, translator and film director.^[1]

Biography

Born in Cazères on 6 March 1932, Mourthé earned a degree in modern literature from the University of Toulouse. He worked as a radio director from 1959 to 1993 and as a television director for TF1 from 1974 to 1989.^{[2] [3]} He was also a producer for France Culture. He was a critic for Le Magazine Littéraire and Le Figaro Magazine.

Mourthé was the author of a dozen books, including Soudain l'éternité, which won him the Prix Chateaubriand et du rayonnement français.^[4] He received the Prix Guillaume Apollinaire in 1999 for his collection Dit plus bas.

Claude Mourthé died in Agen on 13 March 2024, at the age of 92.^[5]

Works

Novels

• La Caméra (1970)
• Amour noir (1971)
• Lettre à un mort (1971)
• L'enlèvement (1972)
• Un pas dans la forêt (1976)
• Le Temps des fugues (1980)
• L'Amour parfait (1986)
• Le printemps fou (1992)
• Une mort de théâtre (1994)
• Paysage changeant (1996)
• La Perspective amoureuse (1996)
• Un état de mélancolie (1997)
• Soudain, l'éternité (1998)

Poetry

• Nuit demeure (1994)
• Dit plus bas (1999)
• Voici l'homme (2000)
• Engrammes (2002)
• Opus incertain (2018)

Essays

• Giono l'Italien (1995)
• Shakespeare (2006)
• Shakespeare, scènes célèbres (2008)
• Shakespeare, Comme il vous plaira (2016)

Decorations

• Cross for Military Valour
• Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mourthé, Claude (1932-2024). Bibliothèque national de France. French.
2. News: Mourthé. Claude. 17 April 2016. "La Tragédie de Macbeth" de Shakespeare, adaptation de Claude Mourthé. French. France Culture. 17 March 2024.
3. News: 25 December 2016. En 1979, Claude Mourthé tournait ici avec Patrick Bruel. French. La Dépêche du Midi. Auvillar. 17 March 2024.
4. Web site: C. Mourthé, Shakespeare (Folio-Biographies). Fabula. French.
5. News: 16 March 2024. Carnet noir : l'hommage gersois au journaliste et écrivain Claude Mourthé. French. La Dépêche du Midi. 17 March 2024.