Alexis Curvers
Alexis Curvers (24 February 1906, Liège – 7 February 1992) was a French-speaking Belgian writer. He was married to hellenist Marie Delcourt. Biography. Alexis Curvers' mother died when he was three years old and his father when he was nineteen. He followed the courses of Marie Delcourt at the University of Liège. Appointed a professor of rhetoric at Alexandria, he returned to Liege where he married Marie Delcourt. In 1933 he published an article entitled "De l'objection de conscience" which led him to be excluded from teaching. In 1940, he took refuge in the south of France, where  he met other writers at Mme Mayrisch, before he returned to Liège. In 1957, his novel "Tempo di Roma", rejected by Éditions Gallimard but published by Éditions Robert Laffont thanks to Marie de Vivier (pen name of Marie Jacquart, writer from Belgium) achieved great success. "Tempo di Roma" obtained the Prix Sainte-Beuve in 1957 and was adapted to the cinema by Denys de La Patellière in 1963 under the same title: "". In 1960, Alexis Curvers received the prix littéraire Prince-Pierre-de-Monaco for all his work.