Serge Bec

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Serge Bec
August 27, 1933Cavaillon, France
February 27, 2021(2021-02-27) (aged 87)Apt, France
Poet

Serge Bec (August 27, 1933 – February 27, 2021) was a French poet, journalist, writer, and art critic.

Bec was born in Cavaillon and spent his childhood in Apt at the family flour mill. He attended Aix-Marseille University and the École supérieure de journalisme. After he completed his military service in Algeria, he became a journalist and art critic for Agence France-Presse. He served as Deputy Mayor of Culture of Apt from 1977 to 1983, and subsequently became director of the Luberon Regional Nature Park. In 1977, he became Editor-in-Chief of the journal Le Pays d’Apt. In 2009, he became Majoral of Félibrige.

Serge Bec died in Apt on February 27, 2021, at the age of 88.

• Li Graio negro / Les Corneilles noires (1954)

• Cants de l'estre fòu / Chants de l'être fou (1957)

• Miegterrana / Méditerranée (1957)

• Memòria de la carn, seguit de Auba / Mémoire de la chair, suivi de Aube (1960)

• Auceus de l'ivern / Oiseaux de l'hiver (1960)

• Galina blanca e marrit can / Poule blanche et chien méchant (1968)

• Balada per Lili Fòng / Ballade pour Lilly Phong (1969)

• Cronicas dau rèire-jorn / Chroniques à contre-jour (1978)

• Sièu un païs / Je suis un Pays (1980)

• Cants de nòstrei pòbles encabestrats / Chants de nos peuples enchevêtrés (1985)

• Pouèmo de la Clarenciero I / Poèmes de la Clarencière (I) (1989)

• Sesoun de guerro / Saison de guerre (1991)

• Tres balado / Trois ballades (1993)

• La nuech fendasclada / La nuit pourfendue (1994)

• Entre Gascogne et Provence – Itinéraire en lettres d'Oc (1994)

• Pouèmo de la Clarenciero II / Poèmes de la Clarencière (II) (1998)

• Suito pèr uno eternita / Suite pour une éternité (2002)

• Saume dins lo vènt / Psaume dans le vent (2006)

• Femna mon Amor / Femme mon Amour (2008)

• Repérages érotiques (1982)

• Mémé, je ne veux pas que tu meures (1989)

• L'otage des loups (1997)

• Cagole (2001)

• La malédiction d'Hadès (2005)

• Un village de Provence: Murs (1993)

• Fêtes de Provence (1994)

• Provence plurielle et singulière (1996)

• Villages en Provence (1998)

• Provence des lavandes (2001)

• Mini-guide des peintres du soleil (1969)

• Mini-guide poétique du Luberon (1969)

• Almanach des plaisirs du Luberon (1979)

• Fantastique Pays d'Apt (1979)

• Votre guide en Luberon (1986)

• Le Luberon et sa région (1992)

• Carnets d'un naturaliste amateur en Luberon (1997)

Bec's poems were adapted into songs by René Sette. He also recorded his poems for Trésors d'Occitanie.

• Grand Prix littéraire de Provence (2006)
• "Jour de Serge Bec" at the University of Montpellier (April 2009)
• Co-Sponsor of the Médiathèque d'Apt (2010)

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