Beck, Beatrix (1914–)
Beck, Beatrix (1914–)
Belgian novelist. Name variations: Béatrix. Born Beatrix Beck in Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, July 30, 1914; dau. of Christian Beck (Belgian novelist) and an Irish mother; educated at University of Grenoble; married Naum Szapiro, Sept 26, 1936.
Her father, a respected novelist, died in WWI, when she was 2; husband was killed during WWII; published Barny (1948); began supporting herself as secretary to André Gide (1950); other novels, which were heavily based on her life, include Léon Morin, Prête (The Priest, 1952), which won the Goncourt Prize, Noli (1978), La Décharge (The Discharge, 1979), and La Petite Italie.
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