Life Jean-Claude Pirotte

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1 life

1.1 years
1.2 first career choice
1.3 second career choice
1.4 growing public profile
1.5 final decades





life
early years

jean-claude pirotte born in namur couple of months after german army had invaded , occupied belgium. grew in nearby gembloux. both parents language teachers. during second world war father worked resistance, jean-claude found him cold , military towards own family. pirotte later said had hated father: sources record tormented childhood.


first career choice

pirotte s first official publication of book of poetry entitled goût de cendre (taste of cinders), published in 1963. contrary expectations of knew him @ time, studied law, however, , pursued lucrative career lawyer between 1964 , 1975, practicing successful advocate @ namur bar. excluded legal profession in 1975 because of offence alleged, , deny, had assisted escape prison of 1 of clients. pirotte condemned eighteen-month prison term. however, rather staying argue case judges took opportunity step red mg , escape france, moving on later catalonia , aosta valley. having left wife , children behind in belgium, led vagabond existence , managed avoid capture next 5 years. @ end of time sentencing had reached end of shelf-life , , jean-claude pirotte able return namur , go daily life.





second career choice

he nevertheless resisted temptation return career lawyer, explaining clash judiciary had given him opportunity escape, , magistrates had sentenced him prison had in sense done him favour, because had given him opening live unconventional live-style. instead of law, devoted balance of life literature , poetry, publishing fifty books, substantial articles, , poems. painter , applied talent illustrating several books.


growing public profile

commentators on french language belgian literature started notice pirotte towards end of 1980s. novel sarah feuille morte (1989) drew attention, did la pluie à rethel , novel published in 1982 , reissued in 2001 , again in 2002. pirotte lover of literature in both french , flemish/dutch. eloquent admirer of writers such andré dhôtel, georges bernanos, guido gezelle, frederik van eeden, georges rodenbach or jacques chardonne, pirotte himself became member of generation s literary elite.


final decades

between 1998 , 2002 pirotte settled near carcassonne, created literary prize named after wines of adopted region, prix littéraire cabardès . further tribute locality became director of literary series entitled lettres du cabardès produced publishing house le temps qu il fait.


during later years pirotte lived translator , fellow author sylvie doizelet in french jura, till 2009 @ arbois, , subsequently across frontier, @ beurnevésin. in interview given in 2011 stated still rented loft on belgian coast. time jean-claude pirotte cursed cancer, died in summer of 2014.








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