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Pierre Gamarra (1919–2009) was a French poet, writer, essayist, and literary critic. Born in Toulouse, he died in Argenteuil. A native French speaker, he wrote in French and served as an editor-in-chief. He was a recipient of the Order of the Badge of Honour.
His literary output includes works such as *Le maître d'école*, *L'empreinte de l'ours*, *La maison de feu*, *Le Mystère de la Berlurette*, and *Solo*. Open Library records list 45 works by Gamarra, while Crossref lists 5. His official website is pierregamarra.com.
Synthesized by Vinony from 31 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Crossref, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1919
- Works
- 45
Top works
- Le maître d'école
- L'empreinte de l'ours
- La maison de feu
- Le Mystère de la Berlurette
- Solo
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1919
- Active to
- 2009
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Pierre+Gamarra">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Going deeper with convolutions
· 2015 · cited 32,884x
- Classification of Surgical Complications
· 2004 · cited 28,247x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,494x
- Outline of a Theory of Practice
· 1977 · cited 19,111x
- Testing for a unit root in time series regression
· 1988 · cited 12,673x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Pierre Albert Gamarra , ( 1919-07-10 ) 10 July 1919, Toulouse , France
- Died
- 20 May 2009 (2009-05-20) (aged 89), Argenteuil , France
- Occupation
- Writer
- Genre
- Novel, Children's literature , Fable , Poetry, Essay
- Subject
- Toulouse , Midi-Pyrénées
- Notable works
- La Maison de feu (1948) Le Maître d'école (1955) La Mandarine et le Mandarin (1970) Mon cartable
- Notable awards
- Hélène Vacaresco Prize for Poetry 1943 National Council of the Resistance Prize 1944 Veillon International Grand Prize for the Novel 1948 Literature for the Youth Prize 1961 SGDL Grand Prize for the Novel 1985
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Pierre
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Toulouse
- Place of death
- Argenteuil
- Occupation
- translator
- Position held
- editor-in-chief
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Official website
- pierregamarra.com
- Image
- Pierre Gamarra 1953, Paris.jpg
Show 6 more facts
- Commons category
- Pierre Gamarra
- date of birth
- 1919-07-10
- date of death
- 2009-05-20
- name in native language
- Pierre Gamarra
- writing language
- French
- birth name
- Pierre Albert Gamarra
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Pierre Gamarra ( French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ gamaˈʁa]; 10 July 1919 – 20 May 2009) was a French poet, novelist and literary critic, a long-time chief editor and director of the literary magazine Europe.Gamarra is best known for his poems and novels for the youth and for narrative and poetical works deeply rooted in his native region of Midi-Pyrénées.
Life
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