François Cheng (程抱一 Chéng Bàoyī) (born August 30, 1929) is a French writer, poet and calligrapher.

Born in China, he was elected to the Académie française in 2002, and was the first person of Asian origin to be a member of this Academy.

It took many years before he became a novelist. His first works were on Chinese poetry and painting. Later he began to write works of poetry himself, before finally turning to the writing novels.

Bibliography

  • Analyse formelle de l'œuvre poétique d'un auteur des Tang : Zhang Ruoxu (1970)
  • Le Pousse-pousse, by Lao She, translation (1973)
  • L'Écriture poétique chinoise (1977)
  • Vide et plein: le langage pictural chinois (1979)
  • L'espace du rêve: mille ans de peinture chinoise (1980)
  • Sept poètes français (1983)
  • Henri Michaux, sa vie, son œuvre (1984)
  • Chu Ta : le génie du trait (1986)
  • Some Reflections on Chinese Poetic Language and its Relation to Chinese Cosmology dans The Vitality of the Lyric Voice (1986)
  • The Reciprocity of Subject and Object in Chinese Poetic Language dans Poetics East and West (1988)
  • De l'arbre et du rocher (1989)
  • Entre source et nuage, Voix de poètes dans la Chine d'hier et d'aujourd'hui (1990)
  • Saisons à vie (1993)
  • Trente-six poèmes d'amour (1997)
  • Quand les pierres font signe (1997) (with Fabienne Verdier)
  • Le Dit de Tyanyi (1998) Prix Femina
  • Shitao : la saveur du monde (1998) Prix André Malraux
  • Cantos toscans (1999)
  • D'où jaillit le chant (2000)
  • Double chant (2000) Prix Roger Caillois
  • Et le souffle devient signe (2001)
  • Qui dira notre nuit (2001)
  • L'éternité n'est pas de trop (2002)

Links

http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/base/academiciens/fiche.asp?param=705

Preceded by:
Jacques de Bourbon Busset
Seat 34
Académie française
Succeeded by:
Current member
fr:François Cheng
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