Roland Dorgelès
Roland Dorgelès was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Goncourt.
Born in Amiens, Somme, under the name Roland Lecavelé, he spent his childhood in Paris.
A prolific author, he is most renowned for the Prix Femina-winning Wooden crosses, a moving study of World War I, in which he served. It was published in 1919.
Dorgelès served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.
