Dominique Rolin

Dominique Rolin

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Writing

  • Gender

    Female

  • Birthday

    1913-05-22

  • Day of Death

    2012-05-15 (98 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    Ixelles, Brabant, Belgium

Biography

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

Dominique Rolin was a granddaughter of Léon Cladel. 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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