Benoit, Pierre 1886-1962

PERSONAL:

Born July 16, 1886, in Albi, France; died March 3, 1962, in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France.

CAREER:

Novelist and short-story writer. Military service: Served in the military, in Northern Africa, for a time between 1892-1907.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Grand Prize of the French Academy, 1919, for L'Atlantide; inducted into the French Academy, 1931.

WRITINGS:

Koenigsmark, Émile-Paul Frères (Paris, France), 1918.

L'Atlantide: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1919, translated by Mary C. Rongue and Mary Ross as Atlantida, Duffield (New York, NY), 1920, reprinted as The Queen of Atlantis, Hutchinson (London, England), 1920, reprinted with a translation by Arthur Chambers and afterword by Hugo Frey, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 2005.

Count Philip: A Romance, Hutchinson (London, England), 1920.

The Secret Spring, Dodd, Mead (New York, NY), 1920.

Pour Don Carlos: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1920.

Le lac salé: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1921, translated by Florence Llona and Victor Llona as Salt Lake: A Novel, A.A. Knopf (New York, NY), 1922.

L'oublié: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1922.

La chausée des géants: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1922.

Mademoiselle de la Ferté: Roman, Hachette (Paris, France), 1923.

Le roman des quatre, Plon-Nourrit (Paris, France), 1923.

La châtelaine du Liban: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1924.

Le puits de Jacob: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1925, translated by Angelo S. Rappoport as Jacob's Well, International Publishers (New York, NY), 1926.

Alberte, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1926. (With Paul Borget, Gérard d'Houville, and Henri Duvernois) Micheline et l'amour, Plon-Nourrit (Paris, France), 1926.

Le Roi lépreux: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1927.

Axelle, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1928, Dial Press (New York, NY), 1930, with illustrations by Carlègle, Hachette (Paris, France), 1935.

L'Auto, La Nouvelle société d'édition (Paris, France), 1929.

Erromango: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1929.

Le soleil de minuit: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1930.

Le déjeuner de Sousceyrac: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1931.

Henry Bordeaux, F. Alcan (Paris, France), 1931.

L'île verte: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1932.

Cavalier 6, suivi de L'oublié, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1933.

Fort-de-France: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1933.

Océnie française, illustrated by Phillipe Tassier, Éditions Alpina (Paris, France), 1933, republished as Océnie française: Nouvelle Calédonie, Nouvelles Hébrides, Tahiti, Editions du Pacifique (Singapore), 1985.

Monsieur de la Ferté, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1934.

Boissière: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1935.

La dame de l'Ouest: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1936.

L'home qui était trop grand, Les Éditions de France (Paris, France), 1936.

Saint Jean d'Acre, suivi de La ronde de nuit, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1936.

Les compagnons d'Ulysse: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1937.

Bethsabée: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1938.

(Author of preface) Francis de Croisset, Le Côte de Jade, B. Grasset (Paris, France), 1938.

Notre-Dame de Tortose: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1939.

Les environs d'Aden, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1940.

Le désert de Gobi: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1941.

Lunegarde: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1942, Le livre de poche (Paris, France), 1969.

Seigneur, j'ai tout prévu: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1943.

Jamrose: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1945.

L'oiseau des ruines: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1947.

Aïno: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1948.

Le casino de Barbarzan: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1949.

Les Agriates: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1950.

Les plaisirs du voyages: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1950.

Le Prêtre Jean: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1952.

La toison d'or: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1953.

Villeperdue: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1954.

Le Pays basque, F. Nathan (Paris, France), 1954.

Feux d'artifice à Zanzibar: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1955.

Fabrice: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1956.

Montsalvat: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1957.

(With Paul Guimard) De Koenigsmark à Montsalvat: Quarante années, quarante romans, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1958.

La sainte vehme: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1958.

Flamarens: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1959.

Le commandeur: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1960.

Les amours mortes: Roman, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1961.

Aréthuse: Roman, with a preface by Paul Morand and afterword by Kléber Haedens, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1963.

Poèmes: Diadumène, les suppliants, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1964.

Mes héroïnes: D'Aurore à Aïssé, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1965.

Les Cinq plaisirs de l'home cultivé, suivi de l'Auto, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1966.

Oeuvres romanesques, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1967.

OEuvres complètes, with an introduction by Hubert Juin, Cercle du bibliophile (Levallois-Perret, France), 1967-70.

Oeuvres diverses, A. Michel (Paris, France), 1970.

Fabrice: Roman, Le Livre de Poche (Paris, France), 1974.

Romans, edited by Francis Lacassin, R. Laffont (Paris, France), 1994.

L'Atlantide was adapted for several films of the same name (1921, 1932, 1972, 1991), as well as the films Siren of Atlantis (1949), Toto Sceicco (1950), Desert Legion (1953), and Antinea: L'Amante della Citta Sepolta (also known as The City Beneath the Desert and Lost Kingdom; 1961).

SIDELIGHTS:

Pierre Benoit, novelist and short-story writer, is best known for his first novel, Koenigsmark. During his lifetime, Benoit produced about forty adventure novels, including Pour Don Carlos, Le Lac salé, and Chaussée des géants.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Cassell's Encyclopaedia of World Literature, revised edition, Morrow (New York, NY), 1973.

Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century, updated edition, Ungar (New York, NY), 1967.

The Oxford Companion to French Literature, corrected edition, Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), 1966.

PERIODICALS

New York Times, March 4, 1962.

ONLINE

Cool French Comics Web site, http://www.coolfrenchcomics.com/atlantide.htm (November 19, 2004), "L'Atlantide."