Roger Rabiniaux (3 December 1914 – 27 October 1986Notice « Bellion (Roger, Nicolas, Pierre) » (né en 1914), pages 78 et 79 in René Bargeton, Dictionnaire biographique des préfets (septembre 1870mai 1982), Paris, Archives nationales (France), 1994, 555 pages, 26 cm .) was a French writer and poet.
Biography Rabiniaud was a pupil at the lycée of Fontainebleau and at Lycée Lakanal of Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine.
A teacher after having studied literature and law, then public works official (1940–1942), he was an editor in the Office of the Secretary of State for Communications Jean Berthelot. He engaged into the Résistance and entered the prefectural administration of Vichy France in 1942.
He published poems in various literary magazines before publishing the five volumes of Un jeune homme des années trente - including Le Soleil des dortoirs - and manifested himself brilliantly in 1951 by publishing L'Honneur de Pédonzigue, a book sponsored by Maurice Nadeau, Jean Paulhan and Raymond Queneau.Patrick Berthomeau, Magazine littéraire, No. 270, octobre 1989,
He was a member of the , the Académie Rabelais, laureate of the Prix Guillaume Apollinaire for Les Faubourgs du ciel (1942), of the Prix Courteline for Les Enragées de Cornebourg (1957), and the Prix Sainte-Beuve for Le Soleil des dortoirs (1965).
Works 1951: L'Honneur de Pédonzigue, preface by Raymond Queneau, Corréâ 1952: Les Vertus craboncrague, 1957: Les Enragées de Cornebourg, 1958: Impossible d'être abject, Buchet/Chastel 1964: Les Rues de Levallois, Buchet/Chastel 1966: À la chaleur des hommes, Buchet/Chastel 1971: La Bataille de Saumur, Buchet-Chastel 1973: Les Bonheurs de la guerre, Buchet/Chastel 1978: La Fin de Pédonzigue, Simoën
References
External links Article consacré à Roger Rabiniaux sur le site Le Matricule des Anges