Marcel Thiry

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Marcel Thiry (Charleroi, 13 March 1897 - Vaux-sous-Chêvremont, 5 September 1977) was a French-speaking Belgian poet.

He was awarded the Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud in 1976 for Toi qui pâlis au nom de Vancouver, a book of poems reminiscent of Cendrars and Apollinaire. He is the father of virologist Lise Thiry.

[edit] Works

• Toi qui pâlis au nom de Vancouver (1924)
• Échec au temps (1945)
• Nouvelles du grand possible (1958)
• Lettre aux jeunes Wallons (1960)

[edit] External links

• Marcel Thiry on wallonie-en-ligne.net (in French)

[edit] References

• France, Peter (Ed.) (1995). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-866125-8.