Robert Mallet (writer)

Mallet taught in Madagascar from 1959 to 1964, where he founded the Faculty of Letters at the University of Antananarivo, of which he was the first Dean.[1][2][3]

He returned to France, and worked for the French Ministry of National Education. Mallet pleaded for the establishment of a separate academy in Amiens. The Academy of Amiens was created on 1 October 1964, and Mallet becomes its first Rector.[4][3] He built the campus, and supported the creation of the University of Amiens.[5]

In 1969, Mallet became Rector-Chancellor of the Académie de Paris, a position he retained until 1980.[6][7] During this period, he was one of the founders of the University of Paris-VII, where he was a professor from 1980 until his retirement in 1983.[1][8]

From 1972 to 1975, Mallet chaired the board of directors of the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUPELF).[3] He was a member of the Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Amiens.[9]

The following works of Mallet are poetry, unless otherwise stated.

• La Poursuite amoureuse (1932-1940), Paris, Mercure de France, 1943 (novel).
• L'Égoise key or the book of octosyllables, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1946.
• Les Poèmes du feu, Paris, L'Ancre d'or, 1947.
• De All Sorrows, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1948.
• La Châtelaine de Coucy, or no morality without love, Paris, L'Ancre d'or, 1950.
• Love, password, Paris, Seghers, 1952.
• Une mort ambigue, Paris, Éditions Gallimard, 1955 (essay).
• The Complete Crew, Gallimard, 1958 (theater).
• Mahafaliennes, Gallimard, 1961.
• Le Poème du sablier, Gallimard, 1962 (Prix Archon-Despérouses).
• The rose in its eddies, Gallimard, 1971.
• Apostille or the useful and the futile, Gallimard, 1972.
• When the mirror is surprised, Gallimard, 1974.
• Exploded flint, Gallimard, 1976.
• The blacksmith had told me, followed by Mots princiers, Gallimard, 1982.
• The Hot Shadow, Gallimard, 1984.
• Ellynn , Gallimard, 1985 (novel - Prix des libraires, Charles Oulmont Prize from the Fondation de France 1985).
• This whirling feather: poems, Gallimard, 1988.
• Uninhabited region, Gallimard, 1991.
• Sowing the tree, poems, Gallimard, 1991.
• The uncertain shores, Gallimard, 1993.
• From the same bread, Ultimes reflections, the Green Wave, 2012.[1][4]

Mallet worked at the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française, where he was known for his interviews with Paul Léautaud or Jean Paulhan and for a series of documents on the French National Library.[1][4][10]

• 1942: Prix Fabien, for Le Retour à la terre
• 1959: Gustave Le Métais-Larivière Prize, for all of his work
• 1963: Prix Archon-Despérouses of the Académie Française, for Le poème du sablier[11]
• 1977: Grand Prix de Poésie, for all of his poetic work[12]
• 1993: Prix mondial Cino Del Duca