Dominique Rolin

Personal Info

Known For

Writing

Gender

Female

Birthday

May 22, 1913

Died

May 15, 2012 (98 years old)

Place of Birth

Ixelles, Brabant, Belgium

Dominique Rolin

Biography

Dominique Rolin (22 May 1913 – 15 May 2012) was a Belgian novelist.

Dominique Rolin was a granddaughter of Léon Cladel. Her career was launched by Jean Cocteau and Jean Paulhan during the Second World War. Over some sixty years she developed a unique, feminist voice in French novel-writing, blending seamlessly autobiography and fiction, and centered on two men, her first husband, a sculptor, and avant-garde writer and theorist Philippe Sollers with whom, in spite of an age gap, she had a half-century secret relationship. She was a Femina Prize winner and a member of the Belgian Royal Academy.

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