Emmanuel Bove

Emmanuel Bove was born Emmanuel Bobovnikoff on 20 April 1898 in Paris to a Jewish father who migrated from Ukraine and a Luxembourgish mother. He studied at the Ecole alsacienne and the lycée Calvin de Genève. At the age of 14, he decided to become a novelist. In 1915, he was sent to boarding school in England, where he completed his education. Returning to Paris in 1916, he found himself in a precarious situation.

In 1921, he married Suzanne Vallois and moved to the suburbs of Vienna. There he began his writing career, publishing numerous popular novels under the pseudonym Jean Vallois. He returned to Paris in 1922 and worked as a journalist. His work came to the attention of Colette, who helped him publish his first novel under his own name, Mes amis (My Friends) in 1924. The novel became a success and he consistently published until the Second World War, winning the prix Figuière in 1928.

In 1940, he was mobilized as a laborer and hoped to be able to flee to London. He was unable to publish during the Occupation. He managed to escape to Algiers in 1942, where he wrote his three final novels: le Piège, Départ dans la nuit and Non-lieu.

He returned to Paris in poor health from diseases caught during his Algerian exile. He died in Paris on July 19, 1945 from Cachexia and heart failure.

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• Mes amis, novel 1924
• Le Crime d'une nuit, novella 1926
• Armand, novel 1927
• Bécon-les-Bruyères, novel, 1927
• La Coalition, novel 1927
• La Mort de Dinah, novel 1928
• Coeurs et Visages, novel 1928
• L'Amour de Pierre Neuhart, novel 1928
• Une illusion, novella 1928/1929
• Monsieur Thorpe (Les deux masques), 1930
• Journal – écrit en hiver, novel 1931
• Un Raskolnikoff, novella 1932
• Un célibataire, novel 1932
• Le Meurtre de Suzy Pommier, crime novel 1933
• Le Beau-fils, novel 1934
• Le Pressentiment, 1935 (adapted into the film Premonition in 2006)
• Adieu Fombonne, novel 1937
• La Dernière Nuit, novel 1939
• Le Piège, novel 1945
• Départ dans la nuit, novel 1945
• Non-lieu, novel 1946
• Mémoires d'un homme singulier, 1987

• My Friends, trans. Janet Louth; Manchester: Carcanet, 1986. ISBN 0856356433
• Armand, trans. Janet Louth; Manchester ; New York, NY : Carcanet, 1987. ISBN 0856356395
• Winter's Journal, trans. Nathalie Favre-Gilly; Evanston, Ill. : Marlboro Press/Northwestern, 1998. ISBN 0810160463
• The Murder of Suzy Pommier, trans. Warre B. Wells. Boston : Little, Brown, 1934.
• The Stepson, trans. Nathalie Favre-Gilly; Marlboro, Vt. : Marlboro Press, 1991. ISBN 1568970048
• Quicksand, trans. Dominic Di Bernardi; Marlboro, Vt. : Marlboro Press, 1993. ISBN 0910395691
• Night Departure; and No Place, trans. Carol Volk; New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995. ISBN 0941423913
• A Singular Man, trans. Dominic Di Bernardi; Marlobor, Vt. : Marlboro Press, 1993. ISBN 0910395942
• A Raskolnikoff, trans. Mitchell Abidor; Red Dust, 2015. ISBN 9780873761086
• Henri Duchemin and His Shadows, trans. Alyson Waters; New York Review of Books Classics, 2015. ISBN 9781590178324

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