Yanette Delétang-Tardif
French poet and translator (1902–1976)
Yanette Delétang-Tardif (18 June 1902 – 4 November 1976) was a French poet, translator into French of Spanish and German works, painter and illustrator. She was a very productive and reputed author of poetry, however she appeared sometimes as a restricted poet.
Biography
Yanette Delétang-Tardif was born Anne Marie Paule Delétang on 18 June 1902 in Roubaix. She was the daughter of Marie Troupeau and Maurice Delétang, an industrialist. In 1927 she married Raymond Tardif, with whom she lived until his death in 1963 and by whom she had one son named Jean-Loup in 1928.
After her marriage, she took her pen name: Yanette Delétang-Tardif. Then she had been succeeding to establish herself as a fully-fledged writer with the publishing of her first collections of poems: Éclats in 1929, Générer, a poetic work about her motherhood experience, in 1930 and Vol d'oiseaux in 1931. Those early works testify to the sway of Paul Valéry's rhythmic pattern. In her book Confidences des îles written in 1934, she adopted a style revealing the adding influence of Guy Lavaud. Meantime, she published in several periodicals, ranked as a recognized poet.
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