Thierry Sandre

Born in Bayonne and writing under the pen name Thierry Sandre, he was a French author whose career ranged across novels, poetry, and essays. He is best known today as the winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1924 for Le Chèvrefeuille.

Sandre wrote during a lively period in French literary life, and his books show both a poet’s sensitivity and a novelist’s sense of structure. Alongside fiction, he also published essays and other prose, building a body of work that was admired in his time for its style and intelligence.

He died in 1950, but his name remains closely tied to one of France’s major literary prizes and to the interwar literary world in which he made his mark.