Germaine Acremant

Germaine Acremant
BornGermaine Fanny Marie Joséphine Poulain
13 June 1889
Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France
Died24 August 1986 (aged 97)
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Resting placeClairefontaine-en-Yvelines cemetery, France
Occupation
  • novelist
  • playwright
LanguageFrench
NationalityFrench
Alma materBenedictine Convent, Corbelly Hill, Dumfries, Scotland
Notable awards
  • Prix Nelly Lieutier
  • Prix National de Littérature
  • Montyon Prize
  • Prix Alice-Louis Barthou
Spouse
Albert Acremant
(m. 1911; died 1942)
ChildrenJacques Acremant

Germaine Acremant (13 June 1889 – 24 August 1986) was a French novelist and playwright. Her best-known work is her first novel Ces dames aux chapeaux verts (These ladies with green hats), a satire of provincial life published in 1921. The Académie Française awarded her the Montyon Prize in 1940 and the Prix Alice-Louis Barthou in 1943.[1]

  1. ^ "Germaine ACREMANT". www.academie-francaise.fr. Académie française. Retrieved 19 January 2022.