Alain bosquet biography

1919 March 28th: the birth in Odessa, Russia of Anatole BISK (occasionally BISQUE), son of Alexandre and Berthe Turiansky. His paternal ancestors, originally from Alsace and Belgium, established themselves in the Ukraine in the middle of the nineteenth century to work in railroad construction there. His father was a manufacturer, but also a poet.

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It was he who first translated Rainer Maria Rilke into Russian.
1920: The family, in reduced circumstances, moves to Varna, Bulgaria, on the shores of the Black Sea. His father lives off translations; his mother gives violin lessons.
1923: Alexandre Bisk becomes a bank employee in Sofia. He branches out into the stamp-collecting trade.

1925: Move to Brusselss. Little Anatole attends various primary schools.

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1932-38: Secondary studies at the Atheneum in Uccle.
1938: Studies in Romance philology at the free University of Brussels. Founding of a first literary review with José-André Lacour, then Jean Mogin: Pylône. This revie Alain Bosquet - Wikipedia LIKO