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126:"beautifully written in a fluent, lucid and visionary manner" and praised the mixture of religious sensuality and intellectual mysticism. "Writers in other countries seem able to reconcile sexual and religious themes in their works in a way that is rarely found in English or American authors."
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60:. He discovered his homosexuality and gradually became involved in the resistance to the military dictatorship that was installed in 1964 in Brazil.
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Conrad Detrez grew up in a small village in the
Belgian countryside. In 1962 he travelled to Brazil as a lay missionary. He first stayed in
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After being arrested and expelled from Rio de
Janeiro in 1967, Detrez stayed some months in Paris, participating in the revolt of
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340:"Interview with Rafael Pedemonte, author of 'The Meeting of Revolutionary Roads: Chilean-Cuban Interactions, 1959–1970'"
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where he became a journalist. In 1969 he secretly met and interviewed
Brazilian guerrilla leader
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In 1982 Detrez became a diplomat for the French government in
Nicaragua. He died of AIDS.
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148:. "But he has a sense of the appropriate image and the right valedictory tone."
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an "extremely ambitious novel". "Detrez is still an unfinished writer", claimed
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Detrez is "a thrilling figure, unfairly forgotten after his premature death".
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Before his writing career Detrez translated books by the
Brazilian writers
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40:) was a Belgian (from 1982 on French) journalist, diplomat and novelist.
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56:. He was a university teacher while at the same time working in the
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In the 1970s Detrez stayed in
Algeria (as a teacher) and in
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Márcio
Moreira Alves, Conrad Detrez, Carlos Marighella,
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203:Caballero ou l'irrésistible corps de l'homme-dieu
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179:Zerschlagt die Wohlstandsinseln der Dritten Welt
132:translated two of Detrez's novels into English.
154:praised his "effectiveness as a storyteller".
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82:(as a radio journalist) after the Portuguese
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16:Belgian journalist, diplomat and novelist
20:
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113:
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247:, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986.
199:, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
170:Carlos Marighella, Conrad Detrez,
14:
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1050:20th-century Belgian male writers
25:Detrez, the year before his death
1070:20th-century Belgian LGBT people
211:, Balland, 1980; Balland, 1996.
157:According to Chilean historian
101:for his autobiographical novel
1065:AIDS-related deaths in Belgium
1035:20th-century Belgian novelists
743:Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud
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318:
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284:The Times Literary Supplement
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185:Les pâtres de la nuit: roman
172:Pour la liberation du Bresil
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10:
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215:Le dragueur de Dieu: roman
1020:Belgian writers in French
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239:La ceinture de feu: roman
233:La guerre blanche: roman
164:
251:La mélancolie du voyeur
191:L'herbe à brûler: roman
174:Aubier-Montaigne, 1970.
36:– 11 February 1985, in
1060:Belgian LGBT novelists
1015:Belgian male novelists
934:Scholastique Mukasonga
433:Louis-Ferdinand CĂ©line
227:Le mâle apôtre: poèmes
26:
1025:Prix Renaudot winners
488:1942: Robert Gaillard
235:, Calmann-LĂ©vy, 1982.
217:, Calmann-LĂ©vy, 1980.
205:, Galerie Jade, 1980.
97:. In 1978 he won the
24:
767:Christian Giudicelli
315:, 17 September 1984.
221:Les Noms de la tribu
193:, 1977; Labor, 2003.
84:Carnation Revolution
1055:Belgian gay writers
761:Raphaële Billetdoux
737:Michel del Castillo
443:1934: Louis Francis
287:, 4 September 1981.
241:, Gallimard, 1984.
136:was labeled in the
124:Le dragueur de Dieu
982:Marie-Hélène Lafon
922:Virginie Despentes
916:Frédéric Beigbeder
874:GĂ©rard de Cortanze
815:Guillaume Le Touze
803:François Weyergans
654:Max Olivier-Lacamp
618:J. M. G. Le Clézio
580:1956: André Perrin
466:Pierre Jean Launay
301:, 4 November 1984.
265:, Actes sud, 1995.
197:A Weed for Burning
134:A Weed for Burning
114:Critical reception
32:(1 April 1937, in
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1002:
1001:
952:Delphine de Vigan
749:Jean-Marie Rouart
731:Danièle Sallenave
725:Jean-Marc Roberts
672:Christopher Frank
612:Simone Jacquemard
601:1960: Alfred Kern
421:Germaine Beaumont
380:Laureates of the
326:The Village Voice
298:Los Angeles Times
263:Les plumes du coq
151:The Village Voice
139:Los Angeles Times
73:Carlos Marighella
67:. He returned to
52:and from 1963 in
34:Roclenge-sur-Geer
1077:
928:Emmanuel Carrère
910:Tierno Monénembo
886:Irène Némirovsky
880:Philippe Claudel
851:Ahmadou Kourouma
785:Philippe Doumenc
713:Alphonse Boudard
684:Georges Borgeaud
666:Pierre-Jean RĂ©my
624:Jean-Pierre Faye
591:Édouard Glissant
499:Roger Peyrefitte
448:François de Roux
439:Charles Braibant
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159:Rafael Pedemonte
104:L'Herbe à brûler
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946:David Foenkinos
898:Alain Mabanckou
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833:Pascal Bruckner
827:Boris Schreiber
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648:Yambo Ouologuem
552:Robert Margerit
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427:Philippe HĂ©riat
403:Bernard Nabonne
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229:, Persona, 1982
209:La lutte finale
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95:Antonio Callado
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529:Louis Guilloux
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719:Conrad Detrez
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30:Conrad Detrez
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964:Olivier Guez
958:Yasmina Reza
860:2001–present
755:Annie Ernaux
718:
707:Michel Henry
690:Jean Joubert
678:Suzanne Prou
636:José Cabanis
597:Albert Palle
585:Michel Butor
576:Georges Govy
570:Jean Reverzy
564:CĂ©lia Bertin
484:Paul Mousset
454:Louis Aragon
397:Armand Lunel
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1045:1985 deaths
1040:1937 births
517:Jean Cayrol
505:Henri Bosco
415:Marcel Aymé
257:Ludo: roman
130:Lydia Davis
91:Jorge Amado
1009:Categories
797:Dan Franck
409:André Obey
270:References
940:Yann Moix
699:1976–2000
544:1951–1975
478:Jules Roy
389:1926–1950
69:SĂŁo Paulo
44:Biography
58:favelas
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