Guy Tirolien

Guy Tirolien was born on 13 February 1917 in Pointe-à-Pitre, into a family from Marie-Galante, where he spent his childhood. Having arrived in Paris in 1936, he prepared at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand for the École nationale de la France d'outre-mer, and there met Senghor, Césaire and Damas. Taken prisoner during the Second World War, he was afterwards a colonial administrator in West Africa, then a representative of the United Nations in Mali and in Gabon. He took part in 1947 in founding the review Présence africaine, published a collection of short stories in 1977 and died in 1988 on Marie-Galante.

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• PoetryBalles d'orGuy Tirolien · 1961not translated into EnglishLiterature