Gérard Le Gouic

Gérard Le Gouic was baptized in September 1936 in the church of Rédené (Finistère). His parents resided in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. He lived there until his departure for Africa. He met the poet Maurice Fombeure, then professor at the Collège Lavoisier in Paris. He spent his childhood holiday in Brittany, home of his parents.

During his military service in Algeria, he became friends with poet Max Alhau [fr] and painter Jacques Rouquier.

From 1959 to 1969, he lived in Africa. His activities in trade will lead him to Fort Lamy in Chad (where he met Henri Queffélec and with whom he became friends) to Pointe-Noire in Congo at Douala in Cameroon and Bangui, Central African Republic. He regularly returned to spend his holidays in Brittany.

On his return to Brittany in 1969, he occupied himself for thirty years with a souvenir shop in Quimper. The sign he chose, "Telen Arvor" ("Harp of Armor") is the title of a collection of the poet Auguste Brizeux and will also be the name he will choose for his own publishing house.

• Prix de poésie de l'Académie de Bretagne et des Pays de la Loire in 2008
• Prix Antonin-Artaud in 1980 for Géographie du fleuve (Telen Arvor)
• Prix Alfred de Musset of the Société des gens de lettres in 1977 for Poème de l'île et du sel
• Prix Breizh in 1973 for Poèmes de mon vivant