Dominique Rolin Explained

Birth Date:22 May 1913
Birth Place:Ixelles
Death Place:Paris
Occupation:Writer

Dominique Rolin (22 May 1913 – 15 May 2012) was a Belgian novelist.[1]

Dominique Rolin was a granddaughter of Léon Cladel.[2] Her career was launched by Jean Cocteau and Jean Paulhan during the Second World War. Over some sixty years she developed a unique, feminist voice in French novel-writing, blending seamlessly autobiography and fiction, and centered on two men, her first husband, a sculptor, and avant-garde writer and theorist Philippe Sollers with whom, in spite of an age gap, she had a half-century secret relationship. She was a Femina Prize winner and a member of the Belgian Royal Academy.

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  1. News: Dominique Rolin, écrivaine de l'infini amoureux, est morte . Le Monde.fr . Lemonde.fr . 15 May 2012. 2013-01-03.
  2. Henri Peyre, French Novelists of Today, New York: Oxford University Press, 1967, p.438