Jean Portante
Author

Poems

extrait de POINT DE CHUTE french

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extrait de POINT D‘INTERROGATION french

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extrait de POINT DE DÉPART french

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CE QUE JE VOIS french

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CES MAISONS SUSPENDUES french

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CES FLEUVES QUI PASSENT french

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CET HIVER SI LOURD french

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CES MEUBLES QUI SORTENT french

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CE PETIT PRINTEMPS french

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CE VENT NOIR ASSOUPI french

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Jean Portante
Author

About

* 19.12.1950, Differdange, Luxembourg
lives in: Paris, France

Jean Portante was born in 1950 in Differdange (Luxembourg). He is writer, translator and journalist.

His works comprise about 15 books: poetry collections, narrations, theatre pieces, scripts, chronicles and novels. His books were translated into several languages.

He directs the poetry collection „Graphiti“ of the Editions PHI and the LIVRES-supplement of the „tageblatt“. He is editor in chief of the weekly journal „Le Jeudi“ (Luxembourg). Jean Portante is president of the Journées Littéraires de Mondorf literature festival. He is co-founder of the Académie Européenne de Poésie and member of the belgian P.E.N.(Centre francophone de Belgique).

His latest publications were the novel La mémoire de la baleine, Le castor Astral, Paris, 1999, the essay Allen Ginsberg. L'autre Amérique, Le Castor Astral, Paris, 1999, and the poetry book Point.,Editions PHI-L´Orange Bleue,1999.