Lionel Ray
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19 January 1935
Mantes-la-Ville, France
Essayist
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| Born | Robert Lorho 19 January 1935 Mantes-la-Ville, France |
| Occupation | Poet Essayist |
| Nationality | French |
| Genre | Poetry |
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Lionel Ray (born Robert Lorho; 19 January 1935, in Mantes-la-Ville) is a French poet and essayist.
Born of a Breton father and a Walloon mother, he spent his childhood in the town of Mantes-la-Jolie. He published several collections under his real name, Robert Lorho, Associate of French language and literature professor at the Lycee Chaptal Khâgne. In 1970, he took the pseudonym of Lionel Ray. Lionel Ray is president of the Mallarmé Academy and a member of committees of the journal la revue Europe, and Aujourd'hui.[1]
He teaches creative writing at the University of Paris-Sorbonne 4. He is a father of four children from his first two marriages: Anne, Frank, Adrien, and Philippe Lorho. He was married to Indian born French novelist Sumana Sinha. He lives in Paris.
Awards
- 1965 Prix Guillaume Apollinaire
- 1981 Mallarmé prize
- 1995 Goncourt Prize for poetry
- 2001 Société des gens de lettres Grand Prize, for Pages d'ombre: poèmes.
- Kowalski Prize of the city of Lyon
- Guillevic Prize of the city of Saint-Malo
