Maurice Constantin-Weyer

Maurice Constantin-Weyer (April 24, 1881, Bourbonne-les-Bains, France - October 22, 1964, Vichy, France) is a French writer. His best known novel is Un homme se penche sur son passé, Prix Goncourt 1928 (tr. : A Man Scans His Past,1929).

Biography

Novelist, biographer and essayist, he lived ten years in Canada (Manitoba) between 1904 and 1914 and this adventurous period fed a big part of its later work written in France between 1920 and 1950. Maurice Constantin-Weyer was a successful writer, best known for his novels of adventure : the most emblematic is Un homme se penche sur son passé (A man scans his past), crowned by the Prix Goncourt in 1928, and whose action takes place in large areas of the Prairie and northern Canada in the early twentieth century.

He returned to France in 1914 to fight in World War One, where he was often wounded and decorated (Verdun – Salonique...). After the war he became journalist and published in France novels and biographies.

His original name was only "Constantin", he will add the name of his second wife in 1920 and sign all his works Maurice Constantin-Weyer.

Bibliography

For complete list see

English translations :

• A Man Scans His Past,1929 (Un homme se penche sur son passé, 1928)
• The Half Breed /A Martyr's Folly 1930 - fictionalized biography of Louis Riel (La Bourrasque, 1925)
• Towards the West,1931 (Vers l'ouest', 1921)
• The French Adventurer; The Life and Exploits of LaSalle, 1931 (Cavalier de La Salle, 1927)
• Forest Wild, 1932 (Clairière, 1929 )

External links

• http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1SEC820702
• http://www.mbwriter.mb.ca/mapindex/c_profiles/hist_constantin_weyer.html
• http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/constantinweyer_m.shtml