Solange Rosenmark

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Solange Rosenmark
portrait by Lucie Delarue-Mardus
BornNovember 12, 1887 Edit this on Wikidata
DiedAugust 17, 1963 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 75)
Paris Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationWriter, novelist, poet Edit this on Wikidata
Parent(s)
  • Charles de Bragard Edit this on Wikidata
Awards

Solange Rosenmark (November 12, 1887 – August 17, 1963)[1] was a French-language poet and novelist from Mauritius.

She was born Lucia Josephine Solange Autard De Bragard on November 12, 1887 in Port Louis, Mauritius, the daughter of painter Charles Autard de Bragard and Marie-Louise Brouesse de Laborde.[2][3] She was the grand-niece of Emmeline Autard De Bragard, the subject of Charles Baudelaire's poem "À une dame créole".[4] She married Hermann Raymond Rosenmark in 1918.

Solange Rosenmark published a number of novels and collections of poetry.[2] She was a contributor to the periodical La Revue de France.[5]

Solange Rosenmark was awarded the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and the Commander of the Order of the Star of Anjouan and was a member of the Société des gens de lettres de France.[2]

Solange Rosenmark died on 17 August 1963 in Paris.[2]

Bibliography[edit]

  • La dame créole (1923)[2]
  • Amour, cher menteur (novel)[2]
  • L'homme à la patte d'oie (novel)[2]
  • Chacun son amour (novel)[2]
  • Poésies de la Bachelette Solange de Bragard (poetry, 1938)[2]
  • Le vent se lève (poetry, 1955)[2]
  • Le chant de la paix (poetry, 1962)[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Rosenmark, Solange (1887-1963)". BnF Catalogue général.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k d'outre-mer, Académie des sciences (1975). Hommes et destins: dictionnaire biographique d'outre-mer (in French). Vol. 5. Académie des sciences d'outre-mer. p. 482. ISBN 978-2-900098-05-9.
  3. ^ Biographies des principales personnalités françaises décédées au cours de l'année (in French). 1968.
  4. ^ Scott, Clive (2000). Translating Baudelaire. Internet Archive. Exeter : University of Exeter Press. ISBN 978-0-85989-658-0.
  5. ^ Warren, Michelle R. (2011). Creole medievalism: colonial France and Joseph Bédier's Middle Ages. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p. 239. ISBN 978-0-8166-6525-9.