Roger Vrigny

Roger Vrigny (French pronunciation: [ʁɔʒe vʁiɲi]; 19 May 1920, Paris – 16 August 1997, Lille) was a 20th-century French writer.

A professor, Roger Vrigny turned to the theatre in 1950 by founding a small company ("La Compagnie du Miroir"), before devoting himself to literature with his first novel, Arban, in 1954. He entered literature under the aegis of the writer and poet Robert Mallet. Also a radio personality, Roger Vrigny hosted the program Belles Lettres on the ORTF in 1955, then the Matinée littéraire on France Culture from 1966. For thirty years, he animated various literary programs, the most recent being "Lettres Ouvertes", aired every Wednesday on France Culture. He was a member of the jury of the Prix Renaudot. Roger Vrigny never stopped working as a novelist, essayist and publisher, all activities were also marked by discretion and demand.

In 1963, he received the Prix Femina for his book La Nuit de Mougins, and in 1989 the Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française for all of his work.

His last published work, Instants dérobés (Éditions Gallimard, 1996), was composed of extracts from his diary held from 1972 to 1991.

He died at the age of 77. He is buried in Picardy, in his village of adoption Wiry-au-Mont.

• 1954: Arban, Gallimard
• 1956: Lauréna, Gallimard
• 1958: Barbégal, Gallimard
• 1963: La Nuit de Mougins, Prix Femina
• 1968: Fin de journée, Gallimard
• 1972: La vie brève, Gallimard
• 1974: Pourquoi cette joie ?, Gallimard
• 1979: Un ange passe, Gallimard
• 1983: Sentiments distingués, Éditions Grasset, Prix Dumas-Millier of the Académie française
• 1985: Accident de parcours, followed by Amour and Une tache sur la vitre, Gallimard
• 1988: Le bonhomme d'Ampère, Gallimard
• 1989: Sang Indien et autres nouvelles (Roger Vrigny wrote the preface of this collection) (La Découverte / Le Monde) Prix du jeune écrivain 1989.
• 1990: Les Cœurs sensibles, Gallimard
• 1990: Le besoin d'écrire, Grasset
• 1990: La Confession de Rousseau (theatre), Editions Actes Sud-Papiers
• 1994: Le Garçon d’orage, Gallimard
• 1996: Instants dérobés, Gallimard
• 1998: Ciel de lit et autres nouvelles, Mercure de France, collective work including texts by Roger Vrigny, Olivier Balazuc, François-Xavier Molia, Rodolfo Pinto...

• 1983: La Métamorphose [fr] by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe [fr] after Franz Kafka
• 1989: L'Or du diable [fr]
• 1996: Roger Vrigny's novel Le Garçon d’orage was adapted for television by Jérôme Foulon with
  • Daniel Russo as Marcellin
  • Vincent Lecœur as Willie
  • Véronique Silver as Germaine
  • François Berléand as Le Boîteux

• 1999: Je suis vivante et je vous aime [fr] by Roger Kahane

• Roger Vrigny on Babelio
• Roger Vrigny, la mort d'un humaniste au regard perçant on L'Humanité (18 August 1997)
• Roger Vrigny La Vie brève on INA.fr (29 September 1972)
• Roger Vrigny on the site of the Académie française