Pourtalès, Guy de

Guy de Pourtalès,
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Name	Pourtalès, Guy de Gender: M
Birthname	Guido James Gräf von Pourtalès
born on	4 August 1881 at 20:30 (= 8:30 PM )
Place	Berlin, Germany, 52n29, 13e21
Timezone	LMT m13e21 (is local mean time)
Data source	BC/BR in hand Rodden Rating AA Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	12°29' 02°43 Asc. 08°02'

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Biography

Swiss author best known for his 1937 novel, La Pêche miraculeuse, which won him the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.

From the 1920s on, Pourtalès published a series of romantic biographies of musicians and also wrote essays, critiques, and journalistic pieces for a variety of French magazines, amongst them the Nouvelle Revue Française. He also began to translate the works of Shakespeare in French; his translation of Measure for Measure was performed in 1920 in Geneva and in Lausanne, and his translation of The Tempest was staged in 1929 in Monte Carlo and at the Odéon theater in Paris.

Guy de Pourtalès died at Lausanne on 12 June 1941, aged 59.

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Events

• Death by Disease 12 June 1941 (Age 59)
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Source Notes

Sy Scholfield provided birth registry entry from Berlin Archives.

Categories

• Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Tuberculosis

• Vocation : Writers : Biographer

• Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist

• Vocation : Writers : Critic

• Vocation : Writers : Fiction (Novelist)

• Vocation : Writers : Translator