Jean-Claude Walter
{{Short description|French poet (1940–2025)}}
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Jean-Claude Walter (20 April 1940 – 10 February 2025) was a French poet.{{cite web|url=https://www.libramemoria.com/defunts/walter-jean-claude/1da6a3a0849c4ea5a62c0a90cc6c1aba|title=Monsieur Jean-Claude WALTER|work=Libra Memoria|language=French}}
Life and career
Walter was a graduate of the University of Strasbourg and wrote over a dozen works, several of which were translated into German, Italian, and English.{{cite web|url=https://www.printempsdespoetes.com/Jean-Claude-Walter|title=Jean-Claude Walter|work=Le Printemps des Poètes|language=French}}
Walter died on 10 February 2025, at the age of 84.{{cite news |last= |first= |date=13 February 2025|title=Le poète alsacien Jean-Claude Walter nous a quittés|url=https://www.dna.fr/culture-loisirs/2025/02/13/le-poete-jean-claude-walter-nous-a-quittes|trans-title= |work=Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace|language=French|location= |publisher= |access-date=21 February 2025}}
Publications
=Poetry=
- Le Sismographe appliqué (1966)
- Poèmes des bords du Rhin (1972)
- Paroles dans l’arbre (1974)
- Fragments du cri (1975)
- Récits du temps qui brûle (1976)
- Patience de la lumière (1978)
- L’amour parole (1986)
- Le Granit et la source (1987)
- Poèmes premiers (1988)
- L’Herbe sauvage (1992)
- Dialogues d’ombre (1996)
- Douze poèmes d’amour (2000)
=Prose=
- Le Rhin des poètes et des conteurs (1966)
- L’évêque musclé (1968)
- Léon-Paul Fargue ou l’homme en proie à la ville (1973)
- Que notre Alsace est belle (1983)
- Erwin Heyn, graveur et sculpteur (1998)
- Les étincelles noires. Une enfance alsacienne (2002)
- Chemins de ronde (2004)
- Carnets du jour et de la nuit (2010)
- Le Rhin, un voyage littéraire (2011)
- Dans l'œil du dragon (2015)